Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1913313 | Journal of the Neurological Sciences | 2015 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Spontaneous activity was more frequently detected in the first dorsal interosseus and deltoid muscles of ALS patients than in patients with the slowly progressive motor neuron diseases. The most important observation was that absent fibrillations in the first dorsal interosseus muscle identified the benign forms with sensitivities of 66%-77% and a specificity of 93%. The distribution of active denervation may help to separate ALS from mimicking disorders at an early stage.
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Manu E. Jokela, Satu K. Jääskeläinen, Satu Sandell, Johanna Palmio, Sini Penttilä, Annamaija Saukkonen, Raija Soikkeli, Bjarne Udd,