Value of sympathetic skin response in multiple sclerosis

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 455-459

  Alavian Ghavanini, M R ^a   Jazayeri Shooshtari, S M ^a   Setoudenia, S ^a   Alavian Ghavanini, A ^b,c  

^a Dept of Phys Med and Rehab ^*  (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Electrodiagnosis; Multiple sclerosis; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC SKIN RESPONSE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0032760209     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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