Inter- and intrapatient variability of facial nerve response areas in the floor of the fourth ventricle

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Bertalanffy, Helmut ^a   Tissira, Nadir ^a   Krayenbühl, Niklaus ^a   Bozinov, Oliver ^a   Sarnthein, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brainstem mapping; CN VII; Facial colliculus; Rhomboid fossa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; CAVERNOMA; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIDERMOID CYST; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBOID FOSSA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOURTH VENTRICLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951767897     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31820781fb     Document Type: Article

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