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Tibial nerve
Tendons
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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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