Intraoperative Monitoring of the Corticospinal Motor Evoked Potential (D-wave): Clinical Index for Postoperative Motor Function and Functional Recovery

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 170-180

  Yamamoto, Takamitsu ^a   Katayama, Yoichi ^a   Nagaoka, Takafumi ^a   Kobayashi, Kazutaka ^a   Fukaya, Chikashi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Motor cortex; Motor evoked potential

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSPINAL MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 2442477509     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.170     Document Type: Article

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