Usefulness of neurogenic motor evoked potentials for spinal cord monitoring: Findings in 112 consecutive patients undergoing surgery for spinal deformity

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-23

  Péréon, Yann ^a   Bernard, Jean Marc ^a   Fayet, Guillemette ^a   Delécrin, Joël ^a   Passuti, Norbert ^a   Guihéneuc, Pierre ^a  

^a NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Intraoperative monitoring; Motor evoked potentials; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spinal cord stimulation; Spinal cord surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CURVATURES;

EID: 0344863174     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(97)00056-7     Document Type: Article

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