The role of motor evoked potentials during surgery for intramedullary spinal cord tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1327-1336

  Morota, Nobu ^a   Deletis, Vedran ^b,e   Constantini, Shlomi ^c   Kofler, Markus ^d   Cohen, Henry ^a   Epstein, Fred J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Epidural recording; Intramedullary spinal cord tumor; Intraoperative monitoring; Motor evoked potential; Transcranial electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORDOTOMY; DETERIORATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

EID: 0030786736     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199712000-00017     Document Type: Article

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