Reliability of side-to-side sonographic cross-sectional area measurements of upper extremity nerves in healthy volunteers

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 457-462

  Tagliafico, Alberto ^a   Martinoli, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross sectional area; Minimum detectable differences; Peripheral nerves; Reliability; Sonography; Upper limb

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; INTERNAL CONTROLS; INTEROBSERVER AGREEMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF; MEDIAN NERVES; MINIMUM DETECTABLE DIFFERENCES; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RADIAL NERVES; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; SONOGRAPHIC; SONOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS; ULNAR NERVES; UPPER EXTREMITY; UPPER LIMBS;

RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874583990     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2013.32.3.457     Document Type: Article

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