The characteristic electrodiagnostic features of Kennedy's disease

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 323-329

  Ferrante, Mark A ^a   Wilbourn, Asa J ^b  

^a USAF Medical Center Keesler   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

bulbospinal; Kennedy's disease; neuronopathy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FASCICULATION; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; MUSCLE CRAMP; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE DISORDER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT;

EID: 0031035995     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199703)20:3<323::AID-MUS9>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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