Human vagus nerve branching in the cervical region
Background: Vagus nerve stimulation is increasingly applied to treat epilepsy, psychiatric conditions and potentially chronic heart failure. After implanting vagus nerve electrodes to the cervical vagus nerve, side effects such as voice alterations and dyspnea or missing therapeutic effects are obs...
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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
2015
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Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-161409 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-161409 http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/16140/OAP-2015-009_Hammer.journal.pone.0118006.pdf |