Facial nerve motor evoked potentials elicited by transcranial electrical stimulation for intraoperative monitoring

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 315-321

  Fukuda, Masafumi ^a   Oishi, Makoto ^a   Saito, Akihiko ^a   Takao, Tetsuro ^a   Fujii, Yukihiko ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Intraoperative monitoring; Motor evoked potential; Skull base tumor; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURILEMOMA; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 42649098575     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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