Ellen R. Grass lecture: Motor evoked potential monitoring

Neurodiagnostic Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 223-243

  Legatt, Alan D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Intraoperative monitoring; MEP monitoring; Motor evoked potentials (MEPs); Spinal cord monitoring; SSEP monitoring; Transcranial brain stimulation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BRAIN; CELLS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY;

MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL (MEP); SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS (SSEP); SPINAL CORD;

PATIENT MONITORING;

KETAMINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL;

ANESTHESIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD; SPINE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 11244317310     PISSN: 21646821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1086508x.2004.11079491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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