The more the merrier?

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 555-559

  Hobson Webb, Lisa ^a   Burns, Ted M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NEUROPATHY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 42549114821     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21036     Document Type: Editorial

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