Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) for the evaluation of cervical spondylotic myelopathy: Utility of the onset-latency parameters

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2396-2404

  Nakai, Shun ichi ^a   Sonoo, Masahiro ^a   Shimizu, Teruo ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy; Median nerve; MRI; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Tibial nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIAL NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLOSIS; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 52949110186     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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