Segmental recording of cortical motor evoked potentials from thoracic paravertebral myotomes in complete spinal cord injury

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Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 1438-1443

  Cariga, Pietro ^a,d   Catley, Maria ^a   Nowicky, Alexander V ^b   Savic, Gordana ^c   H Ellaway, Peter ^a   J Davey, Nicholas ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potentials; Paravertebral muscles; Spinal cord injury; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; MYOTOME; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORAX;

EID: 0036645260     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200207010-00013     Document Type: Article

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