Muscle ultrasound

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 843-853

  Pillen, Sigrid ^a   Boon, Andrea ^b   Van Alfen, Nens ^c  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

congenital myopathy; Doppler imaging; dystrophy; echogenicity; fasciculations; Heckmatt scale; motor neuron disease; muscle ultrasound; myositis; quantitative

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MUSCLE; MUSCLE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 85012845843     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: 22124152     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53486-6.00042-9     Document Type: Chapter

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