The value of inching technique in evaluating the peroneal nerve entrapment at the fibular head

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-5

  Raudino, Francesco ^a  

^a VALDUCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entrapment neuropathies; Inching; Peroneal nerve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONONEUROPATHY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBULA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERONEAL NERVE; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 1042268878     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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