Quantitative assessment of nerve echogenicity: Comparison of methods for evaluating nerve echogenicity in ulnar neuropathy at the elbow

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1446-1453

  Boom, J ^a   Visser, L H ^a  

^a TweeSteden Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Echogenicity; High resolution ultrasonography; Hypoechoic fraction; Peripheral nervous system; Quantitative assessment; Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXENTROPY; NERVE ECHOGENICITY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENYIENTROPY; YEN;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELBOW; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULNAR NERVE; ULNAR NEUROPATHIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861701844     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.10.050     Document Type: Article

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