An evaluation on the method of the differential diagnosis between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and cervical spondylosis
- VernacularTitle:肌萎缩侧索硬化与颈椎病鉴别诊断方法的评估
- Author:
Fengying JIANG
;
Yifan XUE
;
Mingchen DING
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Cervical spondylosis Electromyogram Differential diagnosis
- From:
Journal of Clinical Neurology
1997;0(06):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate clinical first selected method on the differential diagnosis at early stage between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS) and cervical spondylosis.Methods The clinical features and EMG in 53 patients with ALS,14 patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy(CSM) and 23 patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy(CSR) were analysed.And then the value of ratio of every probability was calculated.According to the value of ratio, the clinical features and EMG were compared in differential dia gnosis.Results A multiprogram that consisted of high multiple clinical features was used in differential diagnosis, true positive rate is 98%, and true negative rate is 86.5%,EMG still couldn't be used in the differential diagnosis.Conclusion The program is the first selected method, which can be used in the differential diagnosis between ALS and CSM/CSR.
