Concentric needle jitter on stimulated frontalis and extensor digitorum in 20 myasthenia gravis patients

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 912-918

  Kouyoumdjian, João Aris ^a   Fanani, Adriana Cristina da Silva ^a   Stålberg, Erik V ^b  

^a Neuromuscular Investigation Laboratory   (Brazil)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Concentric needle electrode; Extensor digitorum; Frontalis; Jitter; Myasthenia gravis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRIC NEEDLE ELECTRODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEEDLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81555224251     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22203     Document Type: Article

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