Bilateral foot drop after intestinal surgery: Peroneal neuropathy unabated in elderly patients [12]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1897-

  Kiliç, Erkan ^a   Özgüçlü, Erkan ^a   Erol, Özlem ^a   Özçakar, Levent ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; BABINSKI REFLEX; CASE REPORT; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FALLING; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT DROP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE SURGERY; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PAIN; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; PERONEUS MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECAL DISEASES; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 35748935523     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01433.x     Document Type: Letter

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