Routine electrodiagnosis and a multiparameter technique in lumbosacral radiculopathies

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-105

  Fisher, M A ^a,b   Bajwa, R ^a,b   Somashekar, K N ^a  

^a HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

EMG; F waves; Low back pain; Lumbosacral radiculopathy; NC stat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL RADICULOPATHY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MYELOGRAPHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; RADICULOPATHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ACTION POTENTIAL; LOW BACK PAIN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERONEUS NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERONEAL NERVE; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 55949091480     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2007.00987.x     Document Type: Article

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