The role of intraoperative electromyographic monitoring in lumbosacral lipomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Valentini, Laura Grazia ^a   Visintini, Sergio ^a   Mendola, Carmela ^a   Casali, Cecilia ^a   Bono, Renata ^a   Scaioli, Widmer ^a   Solero, Carlo L ^a  

^a Ist Naz Neurologico Carlo Besta ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Intraoperative monitoring; Lumbosacral lipoma; Prophylactic surgery; Spina bifida occulta; Split cord malformations; Tethered cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DETERIORATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIPOMA; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LIPOMA; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16844365106     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000156783.03809.8A     Document Type: Article

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