Discrimination of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using sensory nerve action potentials

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 169-174

  Hama, Tetsuo ^a   Hirayama, Masaaki ^a   Hara, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Tomohiko ^a,b   Atsuta, Naoki ^a   Banno, Haruhiko ^a,c   Suzuki, Keisuke ^a   Katsuno, Masahisa ^a,c   Tanaka, Fumiaki ^a   Sobue, Gen ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Nerve conduction study; Sensory impairment; Sensory nerve action potential; Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BULBO-SPINAL ATROPHY, X-LINKED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; ROC CURVE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 84862908882     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22291     Document Type: Article

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