Monitoring dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials at the Erb point, the cervical spinal cord and the cerebral cortex in the diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy;Registro de potenciales evocados somatosensoriales dermatómicos en punto de Erb, médula cervical y corteza cerebral en el diagnóstico de la radiculopatía cervical

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 917-924

  Talavera Carbajal, Martin Renato ^a,b   Estanol Vidal B ^a   Lopez Lomeli M M ^a   Garcia Ramos G ^a   Corona, V ^a   Plascencia, N ^a   Dominguez J C ^a   Facha Garcia M T ^a   Valdivieso Cardenas G E ^a   Carrillo, P ^a   Olivas, E ^a   Velazquez M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Afferent pathways; Cervical cord; Dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials; Erb point; Median nerve; Mixed nerve somatosensory evoked potentials; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMATOME; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0037974414     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.3610.2002581     Document Type: Article

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