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  • Title: Reproducibility in nerve conduction studies and F-wave analysis.
    Author: Pinheiro DS, Manzano GM, Nóbrega JA.
    Journal: Clin Neurophysiol; 2008 Sep; 119(9):2070-3. PubMed ID: 18621579.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: Reproducibility testing of nerve conduction studies and F-wave latencies in a group of healthy volunteers. METHODS: A total of 32 healthy volunteers underwent sensory and motor nerve conduction studies of the ulnar and tibial nerves, including F-waves, elicited by 32 stimuli, repeated in two different days by the same examiner. RESULTS: The F-wave latencies showed less variability than the other parameters of conduction studies, and, among them, the F-wave mean latency of the tibial nerve has been the one with the higher reproducibility. CONCLUSIONS: F-wave latencies were the parameters with best reproducibility, followed by conduction velocities and amplitudes. SIGNIFICANCE: Our data showed that the F-wave mean latency is a parameter with a high reliability, considering the reproducibility, for sequential studies.
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