Optimal stimulus duration for intraoperative facial nerve monitoring

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1376-1385

  Selesnick, Samuel H ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Intraoperative; Monitoring; Stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONAXY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACIAL NERVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RABBITS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032837709     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199909000-00003     Document Type: Article

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