Improvement in brainstem auditory evoked potentials after suboccipital decompression in patients with Chiari I malformations

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 459-464

  Anderson, Richard C E ^a   Emerson, Ronald G ^a   Dowling, Kathryn C ^a   Feldstein, Neil A ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem auditory evoked potential; Chiari malformation; Children; Duraplasty; Suboccipital decompression; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DURA MATER; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037372032     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2003.98.3.0459     Document Type: Article

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