Ultrasonographic assessment of the prevalence of fasciculations in lesions of the peripheral nervous system

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-27

  Scheel, Alexander K ^a   Toepfer, Marcell ^b   Kunkel, Mathias ^a   Finkenstaedt, Michael ^a   Reimers, Carl D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; ANTERIOR TIBIAL SYNDROME; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MYOPATHY; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 0031031268     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon19977123     Document Type: Article

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