End-plate electromyography: Use of spectral analysis of end-plate noise

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 52-58

  Maselli, Ricardo A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

congenital myasthenic syndromes; end plate noise; slow channel; spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NOISE; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 0031015011     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199701)20:1<52::AID-MUS7>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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