Sonography-guided injection of botulinum toxin in children with cerebral palsy [11]

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9404, 2004, Pages 249-250

  Berweck, Steffen ^a   Schroeder, A Sebastian ^a   Fietzek, Urban M ^a   Heinen, Florian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ACCURACY; ANATOMY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; COOPERATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INJECTION; LETTER; MUSCLE EXCITATION; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SPASTICITY; TARGET ORGAN; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 1642493732     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15351-2     Document Type: Letter

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