The value of intraoperative facial nerve electromyography in predicting facial nerve function after vestibular schwannoma surgery

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 849-852

  Sughrue, Michael E ^a   Kaur, Rajwant ^a   Kane, Ari J ^a   Rutkowski, Martin J ^a   Kaur, Gurvinder ^a   Yang, Isaac ^a   Pitts, Lawrence H ^a   Parsa, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Electromyography; Facial nerve; Microsurgery; Neuromonitoring; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURILEMOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STIMULATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA;

COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952543187     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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