Evaluation of the complexity of motor unit potentials in anal sphincter electromyography

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 948-956

  Podnar, Simon ^a   Zalewska, Ewa ^b   Hausmanowa Petrusewicz, Irena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^c MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

External anal sphincter muscle; Motor unit potentials; Needle electromyography; Quantification; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CAUDA EQUINA LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 15944422914     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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