Single-Unit Recordings of Afferent Human Peripheral Nerves by Microneurography

Peripheral Neuropathy

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 1003-1014

  Torebjörk, Erik ^a   Schmelz, Martin ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7216-9491-7.50041-7     Document Type: Chapter

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