title: Spontaneous potentials in premature and full-term infants.
abstract: Spontaneous potentials may be normally found in the electromyograms of premature and full-term infants. These potentials tend to disappear as the infants mature past three months of age. However, in some infants with cerebral or metabolic disorders these spontaneous potentials may persist. Their pathogenesis is obscure. The electromyographer must be aware of their existence in disorders unrelated to the lower motor neuron.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D004576:Electromyography; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology*