Three-way bipolar forceps: A novel bipolar coagulator system for nerve stimulation and detection of nerve potentials

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 169-174

  Fujita, Yoshiyuki ^a   Muragaki, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Nambu, Kyojiro ^a   Hori, Tomokatsu ^b   Iseki, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipolar forceps; Functional mapping; Intraoperative monitoring; Motor evoked potential; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FORCEPS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLOSCOPE; SENSORY CORTEX; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SWINE;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; OSCILLOMETRY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SWINE;

EID: 33646473414     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.169     Document Type: Article

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