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Compound muscle action potential cartography of an accessory peroneal nerve
J G Van Dijk1, B J Van der Hoeven
1Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands.
Muscle & Nerve
|September 15, 1998
Abstract:
In daily practice, accessory peroneal nerves (APNs) are detected in less than the 18-25% of legs, as revealed by systematic searches. In one APN case, compound muscle action potential cartography showed that the APN was only apparent when the recording electrode was placed over a small lateral region of the extensor digitorum brevis muscle. Effects of recording site can explain why many APNs go unrecognized.