The clinical role of evoked potentials

Neurology in Practice

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Walsh, P ^a   Kane, Nick ^a   Butler, S ^a  

^a FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYOCLONUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 20444400283     PISSN: 14737086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.068130     Document Type: Review

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