Ultrasonographic identification of nerve pathology in neuralgic amyotrophy: Enlargement, constriction, fascicular entwinement, and torsion

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 503-511

  Arányi, Zsuzsanna ^a   Csillik, Anita ^a   Dévay, Katalin ^b   Rosero, Maja ^b   Barsi, Péter ^c   Böhm, Josef ^d   Schelle, Thomas ^e  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b Szt István and László Hospital   (Hungary)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d Städtisches Klinikum Dessau ^*  (Germany)

^e DESSAU MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constriction; High resolution ultrasound; Hourglass like appearance; Nerve torsion; Neuralgic amyotrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FASCICULAR ENTWINEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE TORSION; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HYPERTROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PROCEDURES; TORSION ABNORMALITY;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TORSION ABNORMALITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84942195570     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24615     Document Type: Article

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