Injury zone denervation in traumatic quadriplegia in humans

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 701-706

  Berman, Stephen A ^a,b,c   Young, Robert R ^d   Sarkarati, Mehdi ^c   Shefner, Jeremy M ^a,c,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

denervation; injury zone; quadriplegia; spinal cord; trauma

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MYELOGRAPHY; MYOTOMY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0029914970     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199606)19:6<701::AID-MUS3>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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