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Surface Anatomy for Clinical Needle Electromyography
by Hang J. Lee, MD, and Joel A. Delisa, MD, 233 pp, with illus, $42.95, ISBN 1-88-879941-2, New York, NY, Demos Medical Publishing, 1999.
Arch Neurol. 2000;57:1228.
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This book is designed to assist electromyographers in the performance of the needle electromyographic examination. The authors provide a large series of drawings of individual skeletal muscles of the extremities, trunk, pelvis, head, and neck regions. An accompanying page provides descriptive material that includes patient position for the examination, site for needle insertion, activation techniques, various clinical notes, and innervation of the muscles, origins, and insertions.
The drawings are all in black and white. At times, the contrast between different muscles in a single drawing does not allow for clear differentiation, and the pointer lines to the muscles are difficult to follow. All important and commonly examined muscles are included. A few muscles that are only occasionally studied have been excluded (eg, pterygoids).
The book will be especially useful to the beginning electromyographer learning to localize muscles for electromyographic examination. Since the book provides no illustrated description of the peripheral . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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