Muscle is electrically inexcitable in acute quadriplegic myopathy

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 731-736

  Rich, M M ^a   Teener, J W ^a   Raps, E C ^a   Schotland, D L ^a   Bird, S J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0029873811     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.3.731     Document Type: Article

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