Motor evoked potential monitoring during cerebral aneurysm surgery: Technical aspects and comparison of transcranial and direct cortical stimulation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Szelényi, Andrea ^a,e   Kothbauer, Karl ^b   De Camargo, Adauri Bueno ^a   Langer, David ^c   Flamm, Eugene S ^d   Deletis, Vedran ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

^c Inst for Neurology and Neurosurgery   (United States)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm surgery; Direct cortical stimulation; Intraoperative monitoring; Intraoperative seizure; Motor evoked potentials; Safety; Transcranial electric stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIRECT CORTICAL STIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM COMMUNIS MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICALLOSAL ANEURYSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 26844514765     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000176643.69108.FC     Document Type: Article

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