Carpal tunnel syndrome: Comparison of the compound muscle action potentials recorded at the thenar region from ulnar and median nerve stimulation

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-126

  Wee, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound muscle action potential; Median nerve; Thenar muscles; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE STIMULATION; THENAR; ULNAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; THUMB; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 33744819714     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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