Punched nerve syndrome: Ultrasonographic appearance of functional vascular nerve impairment

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 352-356

  Loizides, A ^a   Peer, S ^a   Plaikner, M ^a   Djurdjevic, T ^a   Gruber, H ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

nervous peripheral; ultrasound; ultrasound color Doppler; ultrasound power Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONONEUROPATHY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MONONEUROPATHIES; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PULSATILE FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84864681007     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: 14388782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1281831     Document Type: Article

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