Clinical and physiological significance of abnormally prolonged central motor conduction time in HAM/TSP

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-42

  Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a   Shiga, Yusei ^a   Fujihara, Kazuo ^a   Ohnuma, Ayumu ^b   Itoyama, Yasuto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central motor conduction time (CMCT); Central sensory conduction time (CSCT); F wave; Human T lymphotropic virus type I associated myelopathy tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM TSP); M wave; Motor evoked potential (MEP); Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP)

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

AGED; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC;

EID: 0035869239     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(01)00455-5     Document Type: Article

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