Amplitude, area and duration of the compound muscle action potential change in different ways over the length of the ulnar nerve

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2085-2092

  Johnsen, B ^a   Fuglsang Frederiksen, A ^a   de Carvalho, M ^b   Labarre Vila, A ^c   Nix, W ^d   Schofield, I ^e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Instituto Medicina Nuclear   (Portugal)

^c GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^e NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conduction block; Electrodiagnosis; Motor neuronography; Reference values; Temporal dispersion; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELBOW; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

EID: 33747592573     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.05.033     Document Type: Article

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