Neurological complications of ankylosing spondylitis: Neurophysiological assessment

Rheumatology International

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1031-1040

  Khedr, Eman M ^a   Rashad, Sonia M ^a   Hamed, Sherifa A ^a,b   El Zharaa, Fatma ^a   Abdalla, Abdel Karim H ^a  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Evoked potentials; Motor evoked potential; Somatosensoy evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SACROILIAC JOINT; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 67349230816     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-009-0841-7     Document Type: Article

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