Diagnostic value of double-step nerve stimulation test in patients with Myasthenia Gravis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 556-560

  Temuçin, Çaǧri Mesut ^a   Arsava, Ethem Murat ^a   Nurlu, Gülay ^a   Demirci, Mehmet ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Double step nerve stimulation test; Exercise; Ischemia; Myasthenia Gravis; Repetitive nerve stimulation; Single fiber electromyography

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE STEP NERVE STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649186294     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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