Dynamometry of intrinsic hand muscles in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2022-2027

  Selles, R W ^a   Van Ginneken, B T J ^a   Schreuders, T A R ^a   Janssen, W G M ^a   Stam, H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HAND MUSCLE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845718703     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000247272.96136.16     Document Type: Article

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