Vestibular evoked myogenic potential in a child with multiple sclerosis
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- MIYAMOTO Naoki
- Department of Pathobiological Science and Technology, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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- TAKAMORI Toshihiro
- Department of Pathobiological Science and Technology, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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- FUKUDA Chisako
- Department of Pathobiological Science and Technology, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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- HIROOKA Yasuaki
- Department of Pathobiological Science and Technology, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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- SUGIHARA Susumu
- Depatment of Child Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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- TAMASAKI Akiko
- Depatment of Child Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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- MAEGAKI Yoshihiro
- Depatment of Child Neurology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
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- Other Title
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- 前庭性頸筋電位で異常を認めた多発性硬化症小児の一症例
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Abstract
Vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) is a short-latency electromyographic response elicited by acoustic stimuli and is recorded from tonically contracted neck muscles, particularly the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM). This potential is used to diagnose lesions of the saccule, inferior vestibular nerve, and vestibulospinal tract. Our case involved a 15-year-old girl whose chief complaints were dizziness and an eyeball abnormality. The left side stimulation showed waveform loss in the examination of VEMP. MRI revealed a T2WI hyperintense area in the left ventral and right dorsal parts of the pons, and a lesion was observed in the cerebral white matter during a follow-up examination. The regions examined in the VEMP test included the nuclei vestibulares, which is located in the dorsal part of the pons and medulla oblongata; the MRI findings for the same region did not concur with the results of the VEMP test. This VEMP test detected dysfunction of the vestibular nucleus or the vestibulospinal tract, which was thought to indicate a lesion that was undetectable by MRI.
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of Medical Technology
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Japanese Journal of Medical Technology 64 (2), 191-195, 2015
Japanese Association of Medical Technologists
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- CRID
- 1390001205741982592
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- NII Article ID
- 130005068978
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- ISSN
- 21885346
- 09158669
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
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- Disallowed