The motor-evoked potentials elicited from the deltoid muscle by transcranial magnetic stimulation with a standardized facilitation: The potential diagnostic utility for C5 radiculopathy

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Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 276-281

  Inoue, Shinsuke ^a   Tani, Toshikazu ^a   Taniguchi, Shinichirou ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplitude; C5 radiculopathy; Deltoid muscle; Motor evoked potential; Standardized facilitation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Voluntary contraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; DELTOID MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK; PARESIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADICULOPATHY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0037315825     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200302010-00014     Document Type: Article

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