Cutaneous silent period in syringomyelia

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 884-886

  Kaneko, Kazuo ^a   Kawai, Shinya ^a   Fuchigami, Yasunori ^a   Morita, Hideki ^a   Ofuji, Akira ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

N13 potential; Pain; Silent period; Spinal evoked potentials; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSESTHESIA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRINGOMYELIA; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 0030990296     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199707)20:7<884::AID-MUS14>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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