Phrenic nerve conduction in infancy and early childhood

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 915-918

  Imai, Tomihiro ^a   Shizukawa, Hirohiko ^a   Imaizumi, Hitoshi ^a   Shichinohe, Yasuo ^a   Sato, Morihito ^a   Kikuchi, Seiya ^a   Hachiro, Yoshikazu ^a   Ito, Masayoshi ^a   Kashiwagi, Motoi ^a   Chiba, Susumu ^a   Matsumoto, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diaphragm; Nerve conduction study; Normal infants; Phrenic nerve; Respiration

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PARALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHRENIC NERVE;

EID: 0034043494     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(200006)23:6<915::AID-MUS11>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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