Editorial: Time to revisit VEP monitoring?

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 649-650

  Neuloh, Georg ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEVOFLURANE;

BRAIN SURGERY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ORBIT DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; ORBITAL DISEASES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITUITARY DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 77953025899     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-010-0601-1     Document Type: Editorial

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