Patterns of sensory nerve conduction abnormalities in Fisher syndrome: More predominant involvement of group Ia afferents than skin afferents

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1465-1469

  Sekiguchi, Yukari ^a   Misawa, Sonoko ^a   Shibuya, Kazumoto ^a   Mitsuma, Satsuki ^a   Hirano, Shigeki ^a   Ohmori, Shigeki ^a   Koga, Shunsuke ^a   Iwai, Yuta ^a   Beppu, Minako ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fisher syndrome; Group Ia afferent; Sensory nerve conduction; Skin afferent

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NOMOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MILLER FISHER SYNDROME; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878919376     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.01.020     Document Type: Article

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