Distal lesion of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-103

  Kushnir, Mark ^a   Klein, Colin ^a   Kimiagar, Yitzhak ^a   Pollak, Lea ^a   Rabey, Jose M ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electrodiagnosis; Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve; Meralgia paresthetica; Nerve conduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL FEMORAL CUTANEOUS NERVE; MALE; MERALGIA PARESTHETICA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; THIGH;

EID: 37749041075     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20876     Document Type: Article

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