The usefulness of the spinal and subcortical components of the posterior tibial nerve SEPs for spinal cord monitoring during aortic coarctation repair

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-121

  Guérit, Jean Michel ^a   Witdoeckt, Catherine ^a   Rubay, Jean ^a   Matta, Amin ^a   Dion, Robert ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aortic surgery; Intraoperative monitoring; Neuromonitoring; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spinal cord ischemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; INFANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL GANGLION;

EID: 0031105599     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(97)96661-2     Document Type: Article

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