Somatosensory evoked potentials: Part II. A review of the clinical applications in pediatric neurology

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.