Somatosensory evoked potential testing in infants and children.
Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) provide the means to assess noninvasively the peripheral and central nervous system in infants and young children. As experienced clinicians know, this is the very system most difficult to adequately evaluate in young children. Physical examination is difficult. SSEPs provide information about function of somatosensory systems not otherwise available. In addition to pathologic states, maturation and sleep produce changes in SSEPs that require careful analysis.
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Department of Neurology, University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville 32610.
D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003128:Coma / Q000503:physiopathology; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D012016:Reference Values; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000503:physiopathology; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology