Hearing preservation and intraoperative auditory brainstem response and cochlear nerve compound action potential monitoring in the removal of small acoustic neurinoma via the retrosigmoid approach

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 218-227

  Yamakami, I ^a   Yoshinori, H ^a   Saeki, N ^a   Wada, M ^a   Oka, N ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEURINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; EAR SURGERY; EAR TUMOR; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR NERVE; EAR NEOPLASMS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60249097329     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.156919     Document Type: Article

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