Preservation of pudendal afferents in sacral rhizotomies

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 411-415

  Huang, Jessie C ^a   Deletis, Vedran ^a,b   Vodusek, David B ^c   Abbott, Rick ^d  

^a Perinatal and Pediatric Specialists   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Univ Inst for Clin Neurophysiol   (Slovenia)

^d Inst for Neurology and Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder dysfunctions; Bowel dysfunctions; Intraoperative monitoring; Pudendal nerve; Rhizotomy; Sexual dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOTOMY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPASTICITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENITALIA; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RHIZOTOMY; SACRUM; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0030748595     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199708000-00015     Document Type: Article

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