Real-Time Continuous Intraoperative Electromyographic and Somatosensory Evoked Potential Recordings in Spinal Surgery: Correlation of Clinical and Electrophysiologic Findings in a Prospective, Consecutive Series of 213 Cases

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 677-684

  Gunnarsson, Thorsteinn ^a   Krassioukov, Andrei V ^b   Sarjeant, Roger ^a   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME CONTINUOUS INTRAOPERATIVE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 1542405786     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000115144.30607.E9     Document Type: Article

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