Methodology for intraoperatively eliciting motor evoked potentials in the vocal muscles by electrical stimulation of the corticobulbar tract

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 336-341

  Deletis, Vedran ^a,b   Fernandez Conejero, Isabel ^a   Ulkatan, Sedat ^a   Costantino, Peter ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Corticobulbar tract; Intraoperative monitoring; Laryngeal nerve; MEPs; Transcranial electrical stimulation; Vocal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOBULBAR TRACT; ELECTRODE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LARYNX MUSCLE; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEEDLE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VAGUS NERVE NUCLEUS; VOCAL CORD MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MUSCLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59149102023     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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