Assessment of facial nerve function in acoustic tumor disease by nasal muscle f waves and transcranial magnetic stimulation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-62

  Wedekind, Christoph ^a   Klug, Norfrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic tumor; Compression neuropathy; Facial F wave; Magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BLINKING; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NASAL CAVITY; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC;

EID: 0033982854     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(200001)23:1<58::AID-MUS7>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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