Ultrasonographic reference sizes of the median and ulnar nerves and the cervical nerve roots in healthy Japanese adults

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1560-1570

  Sugimoto, Takamichi ^a   Ochi, Kazuhide ^a   Hosomi, Naohisa ^a   Mukai, Tomoya ^a   Ueno, Hiroki ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuya ^a   Ohtsuki, Toshiho ^a   Kohriyama, Tatsuo ^b   Matsumoto, Masayasu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical nerve root; Median nerve; Reliability; Ulnar nerve; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CERVICAL NERVE ROOT; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; MEDIAN NERVES; ONE-WAY ANALYSES OF VARIANCES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; ULNAR NERVES;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CERVICAL NERVE ROOT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE ROOT; NERVE SIZE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PISIFORM BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

CERVICAL NERVE ROOT; MEDIAN NERVE; RELIABILITY; ULNAR NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; ULNAR NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881664774     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.03.031     Document Type: Article

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