Ultrasonographic measurement of median nerve cross-sectional area reference values in a healthy han population from Guiyang, China

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 1883-1887

  Chen, Jun ^a   Wu, Shan ^a   Ren, Jun ^b  

^a GUIZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sectional area; Guiyang; Han nationality; Median nerve; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BONES OF THE ARM AND HAND; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAMATE BONE; HAN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMERUS; MALE; MEDIAL EPICONDYLE; MEDIAN NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PISIFORM BONE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WRIST;

EID: 80053189267     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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