Provocation tests in doppler ultrasonography for carpal tunnel syndrome

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-117

  Ng, Esther S ^a   Ng, Kay W ^a   Wilder Smith, Einar P ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carpal tunnel syndrome; Doppler ultrasonography; Electrical stimulation; Exercise; High resolution ultrasound; Provocation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS MUSCLE; ADDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; FLEXOR TENDON; HUMAN; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROVOCATION TEST; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HAND; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; ULNAR NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84871326770     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23637     Document Type: Article

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