Facial motor evoked potentials in cerebellopontine angle surgery: Technique, pitfalls and predictive value

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 872-879

  Matthies, Cordula ^a   Raslan, Furat ^a   Schweitzer, Tilman ^a   Hagen, Rudolf ^a   Roosen, Klaus ^a   Reiners, Karlheinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma neurinoma; Electromyography; Facial nerve monitoring; Meningiomas; Motor evoked potentials; Trigeminal neuralgia; Vestibular schwannomas

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE SURGERY; CLINICAL STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACIAL MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HOUSE BRACKMANN GRADING; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENINGIOMA; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROSURGERY; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; CHILD; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL NERVES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81155133986     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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