Single-fiber electromyography, nerve conduction studies, and conventional electromyography in patients with critical-illness polyneuropathy: Evidence for a lesion of terminal motor axons

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 696-701

  Schwarz, Johannes ^a   Planck, Johannes ^a   Briegel, Josef ^a   Straube, Andreas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

critical illness; neuromuscular transmission; polyneuropathy; single fiber electromyography; stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 0030939260     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199706)20:6<696::AID-MUS6>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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