Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 152-154 , March 2008

Delayed Reversible Motor Neuronopathy Caused by Electrical Injury

  • Pin-Kuei Fu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Hung-Yi Hsu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Pao-Yu Wang

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Pao-Yu Wang, Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 160, Section 3, Taichung-Kang Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received 4 April 2007 ,Accepted 4 October 2007.

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PII: S1726-4901(08)70008-X

doi: 10.1016/S1726-4901(08)70008-X

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 152-154 , March 2008

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