Sonographic guidance provides a low-risk approach to the longus colli muscle

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 928-929

  Fujimoto, Hiroaki ^a   Mezaki, Takahiro ^b   Yokoe, Masaru ^a   Mochizuki, Hideki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sakakibara Hakuho Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

BLOOD VESSEL; BODY POSTURE; BRADYCARDIA; CAROTID BODY; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; LETTER; LONGUS COLLI MUSCLE; NEEDLE; NERVE; POSTERIOR SAGITTAL SHIFT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; THYROID GLAND; VAGUS NERVE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

BOTULINUM TOXINS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; MEIGE SYNDROME; NECK MUSCLES; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 84862687985     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25024     Document Type: Letter

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