Motor nerve conduction study in cauda equina with high-voltage electrical stimulation in multifocal motor neuropathy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 274-282

  Akaza, Miho ^a   Kanouchi, Tadashi ^b   Inaba, Akira ^b   Numasawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Irioka, Takashi ^a   Mizusawa, Hidehiro ^a   Yokota, Takanori ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Cauda equina; High voltage electrical stimulation; Multifocal motor neuropathy; Multifocal motor neuropathy without conduction block

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANKLE; CAUDA EQUINA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; KNEE; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POLYNEUROPATHIES; TIBIAL NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751655965     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21855     Document Type: Article

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