Intraoperative cranial nerve monitoring

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 339-351

  Harper, C Michel ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem auditory evoked potentials; Cranial nerve; Electromyographic monitoring; Intraoperative monitoring; Surgical monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY NERVE; CRANIAL NERVE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; CRANIAL NERVES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 1442304502     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10506     Document Type: Review

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