Functional recovery despite prolonged bilateral loss of somatosensory evoked potentials: Report on two patients

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 657-660

  Theilen, Hermann J ^a   Ragaller, Maximilian ^a   Von Kummer, Rüdiger ^a   Pohlmann Eden, Bernd ^b   Schackert, Gabriele ^a   Albrecht, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral loss; Outcome; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COMA; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034055563     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.5.657     Document Type: Article

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