Can continuous intraoperative facial electromyography predict facial nerve function following cerebellopontine angle surgery?

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 501-507

  Kombos, T ^a   Suess, O ^a   Kern, B C ^a   Funk, T ^a   Pietila, T ^a   Brock, M ^a   Sindou, M ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellopontine angle; Electromyography; Facial nerve; Intraoperative monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURINOMA; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE; PONS ANGLE;

EID: 0033769198     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.501     Document Type: Article

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