title: Somatosensory evoked potentials: Part II. A review of the clinical applications in pediatric neurology.
abstract: Fundamental to the clinical application of somatosensory evoked potentials is an understanding of the neural generators, the changes in disease states, and the effects of growth and maturation; aspects relevant to pediatric somatosensory evoked potentials were discussed previously (Part I). The importance of establishing normative data across age- and size-matched controls in the pediatric population, however, cannot be overstated. The following review of the clinical applications of somatosensory evoked potentials in pediatric neurology is based on a review of the literature and on the experience gained from over 900 studies performed in our laboratory during the last 4 years.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Fagan
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Logan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*