Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block: Slow but not benign

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1778-1781

  Lange, Dale J ^a   Weimer, Louis H ^b   Trojaborg, Werner ^b   Lovelace, Robert E ^b   Gooch, Clifton L ^b   Rowland, Lewis P ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULNAR NERVE; WASTING SYNDROME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33845521722     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.63.12.1778     Document Type: Article

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