A special kind of anterior horn cell involvement in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy demonstrated by macro electromyography

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 148-152

  Ertaş, Mustafa ^a   Uludaǧ, Burhanettin ^b   Araç, Nilgün ^a   Ertekin, Cumhur ^a   Stålberg, Erik ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

anterior horn cell involvement; fiber density; juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; macro electromyography

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0031038801     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199702)20:2<148::AID-MUS2>3.3.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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