Direct spinal cord electrical stimulations during surgery of intramedullary tumoral and vascular lesions

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 180-189

  Duffau, Hugues ^a   Capelle, Laurent ^a   Sichez, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tracts; Electrophysiology; Intraoperative monitoring; Medullary electrical stimulations; Spinal cord cavernoma; Spinal cord tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CORDOTOMY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PARESIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINAL CORD VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0032323575     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029662     Document Type: Article

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