Neurological outcome in comatose children with bilateral loss of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 271-274

  Wohlrab, G ^a   Boltshauser, E ^a   Schmitt, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Children; Coma; Outcome; Severe head trauma; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMA; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035207647     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-19123     Document Type: Article

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