Reliability of side-to-side ultrasound cross-sectional area measurements of lower extremity nerves in healthy subjects

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 717-722

  Tagliafico, Alberto ^a   Cadoni, Angela ^a   Fisci, Erica ^a   Bignotti, Bianca ^b   Padua, Luca ^c,d   Martinoli, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross sectional area; Entrapment; Lower limb; Minimum detectable differences; Peripheral nerves; Reliability; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBTURATOR NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN NERVE; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865511371     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23417     Document Type: Article

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