Muscle ultrasound quantifies the rate of reduction of muscle thickness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 814-819

  Lee, Christopher D ^a   Song, Yanna ^a   Peltier, Amanda C ^a   Jarquin Valdivia, Adrian A ^b   Donofrio, Peter D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Centennial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Biomarker; Clinical trial design; Muscle thickness; Muscle ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYNAMOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE ULTRASOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WRIST;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 78149300499     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21779     Document Type: Article

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