Calf Muscle Volume Estimates: Implications for Botulinum Toxin Treatment?

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 263-269

  Bandholm, Thomas ^a   Sonne Holm, Stig ^a   Thomsen, Carsten ^b   Bencke, Jesper ^a   Pedersen, Søren A ^a   Jensen, Bente R ^c  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; WATER;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG LENGTH; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE MASS; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CADAVER; CEREBRAL PALSY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LEG; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548829915     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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