Ultrasonographic evaluation reveals thinning of cervical nerve roots and peripheral nerves in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.
Daisuke WatanabeHiroshi TsukamotoTatsuya AbeRuriko KitaoAya OkumaMasatoshi MiharaAtsuko KatsumotoYukiko IwahashiYuichi HigashiyamaYosuke MiyajiHideto JokiHiroshi DoiTetsuo KomoriFumiaki TanakaPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2022)
US showed that the peripheral nerves in patients with SBMA were thinner than those in patients with ALS despite similar degrees of weakness and motor neuron loss. Possible causes include additional sensory nerve involvement and longer disease duration in patients with SBMA than those in patients with ALS.