Are we really closer to improving the diagnostic sensitivity in ALS patients with Awaji criteria?

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 257-261

  Gawel, Malgorzata ^a   Kuzma Kozakiewicz, Magdalena ^a   Szmidt Salkowska, Elzbieta ^a   Kamińska, Anna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; EMG; Neurophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AWAJI CRITERIA; BACK; DENERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EL ESCORIAL CRITERIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADOLESCENT; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901500473     PISSN: 21678421     EISSN: 21679223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/21678421.2014.887118     Document Type: Article

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