Correlation between spinal cord compression and abnormal patterns of median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials in compressive cervical myelopathy: Comparison of surface and epidurally recorded responses

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-202

  Kaneko, Kazuo ^a   Kawai, Shinya ^a   Taguchi, Toshihiko ^a   Fuchigami, Yasunori ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Morita, Hideki ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical myelopathy; Evoked spinal cord potentials; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spondylosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD POTENTIAL; SPONDYLOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; NECK; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 0032581182     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(98)00119-1     Document Type: Article

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