Electromyographic findings after different selective neck dissections

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 319-322

  Tsuji, Tetsuya ^a   Tanuma, Akira ^b   Onitsuka, Tetsuro ^b   Ebihara, Mitsuru ^b   Iida, Yoshiyuki ^b   Kimura, Akio ^c   Liu, Meigen ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical nerve; Cervical plexus; Needle electromyography; Spinal accessory nerve; Trapezius muscle

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE; AGED; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NECK DISSECTION; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ACCESSORY NERVE; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AXONS; CERVICAL PLEXUS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK; NECK DISSECTION;

EID: 33846804331     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000249781.20989.5c     Document Type: Article

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