Monitoring of median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials during cervical spinal cord decompression

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-59

  Dennis, G C ^a   Dehkordi, O ^a   Millis, R M ^b   Cole, A N ^a   Brown, D S ^a   Paul, O A ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraoperative monitoring; Median nerve; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PATIENT MONITORING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0030050476     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-199601000-00005     Document Type: Article

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