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There are many reports of poor correlation between clinical findings and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP). This holds especially for patients with demyelinating disease, where pathological latency delays and amplitude reductions are common even in patients without sensory deficits or specific complaints. Until now there has been no sufficiently accepted explanation for this phenomenon [2, 3, 4]. The notion of the high sensitivity and low specificity of the SEP triggered the present study; therefore, we attempted to correlate somatosensory and SEP abnormalities and to provide new data to localize brain-stem lesions by means of the SEP.
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Claß, R., Buettner, U.W. (1993). Correlation of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials and Somatosensory Findings in Patients with Brain-Stem Lesions. In: Caplan, L.R., Hopf, H.C. (eds) Brain-Stem Localization and Function. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78172-8_18
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