Electromyography in nutritional osteomalacic myopathy.
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Electromyography in nutritional osteomalacic myopathy.
Electromyographic studies in 15 women with nutritional osteomalacia and proximal muscle weakness showed brief duration motor unit action potentials of normal amplitude and increased proportion of polyphasic motor unit potentials in the majority of them. By employing quantitative methods of electromyography, more positive results were obtained, thus reducing the sampling data. The histology show...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.39.7.686