Muscle ultrasonography: A diagnostic tool for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1662-1667

  Arts, Ilse M P ^a   Overeem, Sebastiaan ^a   Pillen, Sigrid ^a   Kleine, Bert U ^a   Boekestein, Werner A ^b   Zwarts, Machiel J ^a   Jurgen Schelhaas, H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Diagnosis; Muscle ultrasound; STARD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ULTRASONOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84863213050     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.11.262     Document Type: Article

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