Tendon-test del nervio tibial en el mal de hansen

A. Blank; J. Wolf; B. Gonén; M. Schochina; J. Sheskin

doi:10.47878/hi.1983.v8.36135

Authors

A. Blank Bet Hakerem Street. Jerusalem. Israel.
J. Wolf Bet Hakerem Street. Jerusalem. Israel.
B. Gonén Bet Hakerem Street. Jerusalem. Israel.
M. Schochina Bet Hakerem Street. Jerusalem. Israel.
J. Sheskin Bet Hakerem Street. Jerusalem. Israel.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47878/hi.1983.v8.36135

Keywords:

Hanseniasis, Tibial nerve, Tendons

Abstract

Seventeen patients, presenting Hansen's disease, were studied by the Tendon-test. Nine presented pathological answers and 4 did not answer at all, probably due to serious nervous damage. So the amount of pathological answers reached to 76.5% (13 patients). On the other hand, the answer of two patients was
considered within the limits and they were classified with the normal answering patients that reached to 23.5% (4 patients). In order to find out if the tibial nerves are also injured simultaneously with the ulnar and the median ones, it is advisable to employ this method in a larger number of patients and in a different social-geographical environment. D.R. Katz.

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