Fasciculation potentials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the diagnostic yield of the awaji algorithm

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 175-182

  Higashihara, Mana ^a,b   Sonoo, Masahiro ^c   Imafuku, Ichiro ^d   Fukutake, Toshio ^e   Kamakura, Keiko ^b   Inoue, Kiyoharu ^f   Hatanaka, Yuki ^c   Shimizu, Teruo ^c   Tsuji, Shoji ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^f JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Awaji algorithm; El escorial criteria; Electromyography; Fasciculation potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AWAJI ALGORITHM; BODY REGIONS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863393132     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22299     Document Type: Article

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