The sural nerve is not always a pure sensory nerve

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 812-

  Haupts, Michael R ^a   Amoiridis, Georgios ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LETTER; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SURAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 34249748832     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20767     Document Type: Letter

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