Flexor Digitorum Superficialis: Locations of individual muscle bellies for botulinum toxin injections

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1041-1043

  Bickerton, Lauren E ^a   Agur, Anne M R ^a   Ashby, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Botulinum toxin; Flexor digitorum superficialis; Focal dystonia

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; DYSTONIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJECTION SITE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BOTULINUM TOXINS; CADAVER; DYSTONIA; FOREARM; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0030739393     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199708)20:8<1041::AID-MUS18>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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