Correct terminology for electrodiagnostic studies
Konçuy Sivrioğlu · International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2008
I recently read an article in your journal entitled “Evaluation of the clinical presentations in neurobrucellosis” (Yetkin MA, Bulut C, Erdinc FS, Oral B, Tulek N. Int J Infect Dis 2006;10:446–52). Since neurological involvement is infrequent in brucellosis, this interesting analysis of 20 cases provides substantial insight into this significant clinical problem. A point of terminology must have escaped the attention of the co-authors as well as the journal's reviewers. Electrodiagnostic studies utilized in patients for the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy and radiculopathy were repeatedly termed electromyelography instead of electromyography in the methods, results, and discussion sections. Although the term is widely used among some physicians, it is not included in the medical subject heading (MeSH) vocabulary list, thus does not exist as a keyword in PubMed. I believe that the term electromyography should be the preferred one for terminology consistency in medical journals. Conflict of interest: No conflict of interest to declare.