Effect of skin thickness on sensory nerve action potential amplitude

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1824-1828

  Hasanzadeh, Parisa ^a   Oveisgharan, Shahram ^a   Sedighi, Nahid ^b   Nafissi, Shahriar ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Normal value; Sensory nerve action potential amplitude; Skin sonography; Skin thickness

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; ULNAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SKIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 46049091751     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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