Ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment of posterior interosseous nerve entrapment: A case report

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-300

  Kara, Murat ^a   Tiftik, Tüay ^a   Yetis Gin, Alparslan ^a   Ural, Gülçin ^a   Özçakar, Levent ^b  

^a ANKARA PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARM WEAKNESS; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GANGLION CYST; HAND EDEMA; HUMAN; LETTER; NERVE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PARALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; POSTERIOR INTEROSSEOUS NERVE; POSTERIOR INTEROSSEOUS NERVE COMPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; RADIAL NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84855828435     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22163     Document Type: Letter

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