Medial plantar nerve testing facilitates identification of polyneuropathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1595-1598

  Sylantiev, Constantin ^a   Schwartz, Roseline ^a   Chapman, Joab ^a,b   Buchman, Aron S ^a,c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Medial plantar nerve; Nerve conduction studies; Peripheral neuropathy; Superficial peroneal nerve; Sural nerve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISTAL SYMMETRICAL POLYNEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL PLANTAR NERVE; NERVE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SUPERFICIAL PERONEAL NERVE; SURAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERONEAL NERVE; POLYNEUROPATHIES; ROC CURVE; SURAL NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749154490     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21029     Document Type: Article

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