Peripheral motor and sensory nerve conduction studies in normal infants and children

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 513-520

  García, Antonio ^a   Calleja, Jesús ^a   Antolín, Francisco M ^a   Berciano, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corrected distal motor latency; F wave; Motor conduction; Normal infants and children; Peripheral nerves; Sensory conduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; ULNAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUSCLES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0034006076     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00279-5     Document Type: Article

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