Talk:Electroneuronography

Refs

This article would benefit from inline references, so the reader could tell which refs support which statements. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree with WhatamIdoing. I would specifically like to seen a citation for the 1979 article by Esslen and Fisch; a quick Google search failed to elucidate that reference. The year 2000 book The Facial Nerve by Mark May reference a 1972 article by Esslen and Fisch in Arch Otolanryngol which is cited as popularizing (but not describing) electrical study of the facial nerve in certain conditions. Nerve conduction studies/electroneuronography have been performed since the mid-1800s, with refinements in techniques and instrumentation making electroneuronography/nerve conduction study clinically practical in the late 1940s, so clearly the assertion that these techniques were not available before 1979 is incorrect. El piel (talk) 22:40, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

The assertion that the facial nerve is the most commonly studied nerve by electroneuronography is also false (made in the second paragraph of the lead). As a practitioner of nerve conduction studies and EMG, I can state from experience (though I'd have to go hunting for references) that limb nerves, especially the median, are much more commonly evaluated using this technique. El piel (talk) 22:40, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Propose Merge

There is a separate wikipedia article entitled nerve conduction study, which is the same procedure as nerve conduction study, just under a different name. As is evident by the content of this page, electroneuronography is term most commonly used for the nerve conduction study of the facial nerve, and in my experience is more commonly used by ENT specialists than by neurologists or PM&R specialists. I would propose that ENoG content be merged into the nerve conduction study article, as I believe nerve conduction study to be the more common term used. Please provide input. Thanks. El piel (talk) 22:33, 18 October 2013 (UTC)