Predicting Nerve Root Pathology With Voltage-actuated Sensory Nerve Conduction Threshold
Citation:
R.C. Cork, S. Saleemi, L. Hernandez, T. Schult, S. Brandt: Predicting Nerve Root Pathology With Voltage-actuated Sensory Nerve Conduction Threshold. The Internet Journal of Neurology. 2002 Volume 2 Number 1
Keywords:
anesthesiology, anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical care medicine, trauma, regional anesthesia, Neural Conduction, Neurons, Afferent, Back Pain, Pain Measurement, Sensory Thresholds, Radiculopathy
Abstract
There is evidence that the data and images in this article were fabricated or at least misrepresented. We decided to remove this article since it has been used to promote a commercial device. We caution any reader with an old copy of this article to base any diagnosis, treatment, and billing decision based on this article. There might as well be conflict-of-interest issues that have not been disclosed to us at the time of the publication of this article. Again, we caution any reader or practitioner to use any of the information in this article. Internet Scientific Publications, LLC
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