Central motor and sensory conduction in patients with hepatic myelopathy

Spinal Cord

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 439-443

  Nardone, R ^a,b   Orioli, A ^b   Holler Y ^a   Lochner, P ^b   Kunz, A ^a   Golaszewski, S ^a   Brigo, F ^b,c   Trinka, E ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b FRANZ TAPPEINER HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEPATIC MYELOPATHY; HUMAN; ITALY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD LESION; ARM; CLINICAL TRIAL; LEG; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84902297136     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2014.61     Document Type: Article

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