Role of magnetic resonance imaging in entrapment and compressive neuropathy - What, where, and how to see the peripheral nerves on the musculoskeletal magnetic resonance image: Part 1. Overview and lower extremity

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 139-149

  Kim, Sungjun ^a,b   Choi, Jin Young ^a   Huh, Yong Min ^a   Song, Ho Taek ^a   Lee, Sung Ah ^a   Kim, Seung Min ^a   Suh, Jin Suck ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anatomy; MR; Peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FIBULA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; METATARSAL BONE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; TARSAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; TIBIAL NERVE; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33846059280     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0179-4     Document Type: Review

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