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The clinical use of macro and surface electromyography in diagnosis and follow-up of endocrine and drug-induced myopathies

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Minetto, M.A., Rainoldi, A. & Jabre, J.F. The clinical use of macro and surface electromyography in diagnosis and follow-up of endocrine and drug-induced myopathies. J Endocrinol Invest 30, 791–796 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03350820

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