Late Response and Sural Conduction Studies: Usefulness in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1981, Pages 482-485

  Ackil, Albert A ^a   Shahani, Bhagwan T ^a   Young, Robert R ^a   Rubin, Nina E ^b  

^a Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratories ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY NERVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; RENAL DIALYSIS; SPINAL NERVES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0019521903     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1981.00510080044004     Document Type: Article

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