Table 2

Electrophysiological data

		Patient 1	Patient 2			Patient 3	Patient 4				Patient 5
	Normal value	Day 13	Day 21	Day 43	Day 81	Day 37	Day 10	Day 21	Day 40	Month 5	Day 13
Muscle relaxants		−	+			+	+				+
Days after withdrawal of muscle relaxant		–	6	28	66	0	2	13	32	150	5

Conduction velocity (m/s)
Median motor	40–50	43	50	52	40.5	NR	36.5	52.5	55	55	58
Median sensory	45–55	53	45.5	54.5	51	46	41	42	46	52	50
Ulnar motor	40–50	45.5	52	40.5	NR				46		48
Peroneal motor	40–50	50	42.5	50
Suralis	45–55		46

Amplitude
Median motor (mV)	>6	4.8	0.15	3.1	5.7	NR	0.25	3.5	1.14	4.7	6.4
Median sensory (μV)	>10	7.5	0.9	0.07	1.75	25	32	1.65	0.53	4.6	14
Ulnar motor (mV)	>3	1.2	0.37	0.08	NR				34		8
Peroneal motor (mV)	>5.8	4.2	0.8	1
Suralis (μV)	>6

Distal latency (ms)
Median motor	<3.5	3	4.1	2.8	2.9	NR	3.1	1.9	1.8	1.4	2.5
Ulnar motor	<3.5	2.6	7.3	4.7	NR			3	3.3	1.9	2
Peroneal	<3.5

EMG		Fibrillation potentials	No recruitment	Reduced recruitment	Reinnervation	Fibrillation potentials	Polyphasic motor unit potentials	Small and polyphasic motor unit potentials	Small and polyphasic motor unit potentials	Normal	Polyphasic motor unit action potentials with early recruitment
		No recruitment				No recruitment
NR, no response.