Motor and somatosensory evoked potentials in cervical spondylotic myelopathy

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-31

  Maertens de Noordhout, A ^a   Myressiotis, S ^a   Delvaux, V ^a   Born, J D ^a   Delwaide, P J ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Regional de La Citadelle   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy; Motor evoked potentials; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0344505271     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(97)00075-0     Document Type: Article

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