The value of somatosensory- and motor-evoked potentials in predicting and monitoring the effect of therapy in spondylotic cervical myelopathy: Prospective randomized study

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Volumn 24, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1593-1598

  Bednařík, Josef ^a   Kadaňka, Zdeněk ^a   Voháňka, Stanislav ^a   Stejskal, Lubor ^b   Vlach, Otto ^a   Schröder, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^b CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potentials; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spondylotic cervical myelopathy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 0345465950     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199908010-00014     Document Type: Article

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