Thickened hyperechoic outer epineurium, a sonographic sign suggesting snapping ulnar nerve syndrome?

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-63

  Plaikner, M ^a   Loizides, A ^a   Loescher, W ^a   Spiss, V ^a   Gruber, H ^a   Djurdjevic, T ^a   Peer, S ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

nervous peripheral; soft tissues; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FRICTION; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; CICATRIX; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; FRICTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME; ULNAR NERVE; ULNAR NEUROPATHIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873405071     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: 14388782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1313140     Document Type: Article

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