Predictive values of motor unit potential analysis in limb muscles

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 937-940

  Podnar, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biceps brachii; Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; Motor unit potential; Predictive values; Quantitative electromyography; Sensitivity; Specificity; Vastus lateralis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349283937     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.02.165     Document Type: Article

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