Flash visual evoked potentials are unreliable as markers of ICP due to high variability in normal subjects

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-127

  Andersson, Linnea ^a   Sjölund, Johanna ^a   Nilsson, Josefin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Department of Clinical Neurophysiology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flash visual evoked potentials; Intracranial hypertension; Intracranial pressure; N2 latency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; STANDARDIZATION; WAVEFORM; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEAD INJURY; NOTE; SEDATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856744158     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-011-1152-9     Document Type: Article

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