Muscles alive: Ultrasound detects fibrillations

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 932-936

  Pillen, Sigrid ^a   Nienhuis, Mark ^a   van Dijk, Johannes P ^a   Arts, Ilse M P ^a   van Alfen, Nens ^a   Zwarts, Machiel J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EMG; Fibrillations; Neuromuscular disorders; Spontaneous activity; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC MUSCLE ULTRASOUND; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FIBRILLATION; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 67349274909     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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