Spinal cord evoked potential monitoring for cervical and thoracic compressive myelopathy

Paraplegia

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 100-106

  Baba, H ^a   Maezawa, Y ^a   Imura, S ^a   Kawahara, N ^a   Tomita, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compressive myelopathy; Diagnosis; Neurological prognosis; Spinal cord evoked potentials; Surgical decompression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SYMPTOM; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 28144432129     PISSN: 00311758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1996.18     Document Type: Article

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