Comparison of surgical and electrodiagnostic findings in single root lumbosacral radiculopathies

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-64

  Tsao, Bryan E ^a   Levin, Kerry H ^a   Bodner, Russ A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrodiagnostic; Lumbosacral; Muscle innervation; Myotomes; Radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MYOTOME; NEEDLE; NERVE STIMULATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADICULOPATHY;

EID: 0037231162     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10291     Document Type: Article

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