The role of intraoperative monitoring of oculomotor and trochlear nuclei - Safe entry zone to tegmental lesions

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 168-172

  Ishihara, Hideyuki ^a,c   Bjeljac, M ^a   Straumann, D ^b   Kaku, Y ^a   Roth, P ^a   Yonekawa, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intraoperative monitoring; Oculomotor complex; Trochlear nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE FUNCTION; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; OPTIC LOBE; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIATION NECROSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE; TEGMENTUM; TROCHLEAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADENOCARCINOMA; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TROCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 33746561239     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-944239     Document Type: Article

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