Spinal cord mapping as an adjunct for resection of intramedullary tumors: Surgical technique with case illustrations

Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1199-1207

  Quinones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^a,b   Gulati, Mittul ^a   Lyon, Russell ^a   Gupta, Nalin ^a   Yingling, Charles ^a   Cooper, Paul R ^b   Benzel, Edward C ^b   Sonntag, Volker K H ^b   McCormick, Paul C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Direct stimulation spinal cord; Electrophysiological monitoring; Intramedullary spinal cord tumor; Intraoperative mapping; Motor evoked potentials; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CORDOTOMY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036871271     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200211000-00015     Document Type: Article

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