Delay of the Blink Reflex in Patients Receiving Platinum-Analogue Chemotherapy

To investigate the presence of cranial neuropathy in patients with platinum-analogue chemotherapy using electrodiagnostic evaluations. Thirty-nine patients whose chemotherapy was completed within a month and 40 control subjects were enrolled in the study. Electrodiagnostic evaluation was performed using sensory and motor nerve conduction studies and blink reflex studies, in addition to the two-point discrimination test. The chemotherapy group had significantly longer latencies of bilateral R1 responses (left p