Using vestibular evoked myogenic potentials to localise brainstem lesions. A preliminary report

B-ENT

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 215-219

  Deftereos, S N ^a,b   Panagopoulos, G ^a   Eleftheriadou, Aegika ^a,d   Korres, S ^c   Georgonikou, D ^a   Kandiloros, D ^c   Karageorgiou, C E ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Biovista sa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brainstem lesions; Localisation; Neurophysiology; VEMPs; Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 58249101191     PISSN: 1781782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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