Compressive lumbar myelopathy presenting as segmental motor neuron disease

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-73

  Kleopa, Kleopas A ^a   Zamba Papanicolaou, Eleni ^a   Kyriakides, Theodoros ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Anterior spinal artery; Disc herniation; Muscle atrophy; Spondylosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOTOME; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPONDYLOSIS; TENDON REFLEX; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ATROPHY; DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

EID: 0038121670     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10405     Document Type: Article

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