Transcranial Motor Evoked Potentials during Basilar Artery Aneurysm Surgery: Technique Application for 30 Consecutive Patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 916-924

  Quiñones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^a   Alam, Mirza ^a   Lyon, Russ ^a   Yingling, Charles D ^a   Lawton, Michael T ^a   Klopfenstein, Jeffrey D ^b   Spetzler, Robert F ^b   Kelly, Patrick J ^b   Solomon, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Basilar artery; Motor evoked potential; Neuromonitoring; Somatosensory evoked potential; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSURGERY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

EID: 1842430862     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000114511.33035.AF     Document Type: Article

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