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Chapter 5 82 Table 5.4 Mean intraspinal nerve root sizes in patients with CIDP, MMN and controls Inflammatory neuropathy Controls Level of significance CIDP (n = 40) MMN (n = 27) MND (n = 34) Healthy control (n = 5) Ventral C5 0.66 (0.13) 0.68 (0.17) 0.65 (0.11) 0.56 (0.13) 0.001 a Right 0.69 (0.13) 0.69 (0.15) 0.67 (0.13) 0.60 (0.14) 0.076 Left 0.63 (0.12) 0.67 (0.20) 0.64 (0.10) 0.53 (0.11) 0.004 a C6 0.62 (0.10) 0.66 (0.14) 0.63 (0.11) 0.50 (0.12) <0.001 a Right 0.61 (0.10) 0.68 (0.14) 0.62 (0.10) 0.48 (0.11) <0.001 a,b Left 0.62 (0.10) 0.64 (0.13) 0.64 (0.12) 0.54 (0.15) 0.222 C7 0.67 (0.16) 0.67 (0.15) 0.61 (0.09) 0.52 (0.10) <0.001 a Right 0.70 (0.19) 0.67 (0.17) 0.60 (0.08) 0.55 (0.07) <0.001 c Left 0.65 (0.14) 0.67 (0.14) 0.61 (0.10) 0.48 (0.11) <0.001 a Dorsal C5 0.67 (0.13) 0.67 (0.14) 0.65 (0.12) 0.58 (0.12) 0.003 a Right 0.68 (0.15) 0.67 (0.15) 0.66 (0.12) 0.52 (0.08) 0.001 a Left 0.67 (0.12) 0.67 (0.12) 0.65 (0.12) 0.64 (0.13) 0.504 C6 0.68 (0.14) 0.69 (0.14) 0.66 (0.13) 0.52 (0.11) <0.001 a Right 0.67 (0.15) 0.70 (0.15) 0.65 (0.13) 0.52 (0.12) 0.001 a Left 0.69 (0.13) 0.67 (0.13) 0.66 (0.12) 0.52 (0.11) 0.003 a C7 0.69 (0.18) 0.73 (0.27) 0.73 (0.18) 0.56 (0.11) 0.001 a Right 0.68 (0.20) 0.68 (0.16) 0.72 (0.16) 0.56 (0.14) 0.046 d Left 0.70 (0.15) 0.77 (0.34) 0.73 (0.20) 0.55 (0.06) 0.016 e Nerve root sizes are mean in millimeters with standard deviation. a Significant difference between healthy controls compared to CIDP, MMN and MND patients. b Significant difference between patients with MMN and CIDP c Significant difference between patients with CIDP and healthy controls d Significant difference between patients with MND and healthy controls e Significant difference between patients with MMN and healthy controls Abbreviations: CIDP = chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; MMN = multifocal motor neuropathy; MND = motor neuron disease.