The scalp to earlobe montage as standard in routine SEP recording. Comparison with the non-cephalic reference in patients with lesions of the upper cervical cord

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 414-422

  Valeriani, Massimiliano ^a   Restuccia, Domenico ^a   Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a   Le Pera, Domenica ^a   Barba, Carmen ^a   Tonali, Pietro ^a,b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervical spinal cord; Far field; P14; SEP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EAR LOBE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SPINE TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031814907     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(98)00008-2     Document Type: Article

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