Lumbosarcral radiculopathies - The importance of EDX information other than needle electromyography

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 377-384

  Fisher, Morris A ^a,b   Bajwa, Rizwan ^a,b   Somashekar, Kudavalli N ^a  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; F waves; Lumbosacral radiculopathy; NC stat; Nerve conduction studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADICULOPATHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BACK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REACTION TIME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADICULOPATHY; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36448949465     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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