T2-Signal of Ulnar Nerve Branches at the Wrist in Guyon's Canal Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kollmer, Jennifer ^a   Bäumer, Philipp ^a   Milford, David ^a   Dombert, Thomas ^b   Staub, Frank ^b   Bendszus, Martin ^a   Pham, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Center for Peripheral Neurosurgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; GUYON CANAL SYNDROME; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE COMPRESSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULNAR NERVE; ULNAR NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; WRIST;

EID: 84867392656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047295     Document Type: Article

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