Verification of nerve root decompression during minimally-invasive lumbar microdiskectomy: A practical application of surgeon-driven evoked EMG

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 273-277

  Limbrick Jr , David D ^a   Wright, N M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression; Endoscopic; Lumbar microdiskectomy; Nerve root

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL ELECTROMYOGRAM; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR MICRODISKECTOMY; MALE; NERVE ROOT; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; RECORDING; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON;

ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISKECTOMY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 29244440416     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-915594     Document Type: Article

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