Increased nerve vascularization detected by color doppler sonography in patients with ulnar neuropathy at the elbow indicates axonal damage

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 188-193

  Frijlink, Daphne W ^a   Brekelmans, Geert J F ^a   Visser, Leo H ^a  

^a CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color Doppler; High resolution ultrasonography; Intraneural vascularization; Peripheral nervous system; Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BLOCK; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULNAR NERVE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AXONS; ELBOW; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULNAR NERVE; ULNAR NEUROPATHIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84873034637     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23505     Document Type: Article

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