Diagnostic yield of noninvasive high spatial resolution electromyography in neuromuscular diseases

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1360-1370

  Huppertz, Hans Jürgen ^a   Disselhorst Klug, Catherine ^a   Silny, Jiri ^a   Rau, Günter ^a   Heimann, Gerhard ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Neuromuscular disorders; Spatial filtering technique; Surface electrode array

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; KUGELBERG WELANDER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; WERDNIG HOFFMANN DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030766828     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199711)20:11<1360::AID-MUS3>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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