Urethral evoked sympathetic skin responses and viscerosensory evoked potentials as diagnostic tools to evaluate urogenital autonomic afferent innervation in spinal cord injured patients

Journal of Urology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1156-1160

  Schmid, Daniel Max ^a,b   Reitz, Andre ^a   Curt, Armin ^a   Hauri, Dieter ^b   Schurch, Brigitte ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bladder, neurogenic; Galvanic skin response, urodynamics, urinary tract, spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUDENDAL NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; URETHRA; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 1542267889     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000111809.81966.8b     Document Type: Article

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