Advanced Hirayama disease with successful improvement of activities of daily living by operative reconstruction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-81

  Chiba, Susumu ^a   Yonekura, Kazumi ^a   Nonaka, Michio ^a   Imai, Tomihiro ^a   Matumoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Wada, Takuro ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADL; Advanced stage; Hirayama disease; Tendon transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; HAND MUSCLE; HIRAYAMA DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TENDON TRANSFER; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; HAND DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1142263104     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.79     Document Type: Article

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