Neurophysiological monitoring for safe surgical tethered cord syndrome release in adults

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-133

  Quiñones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^a,b   Gadkary, Chirag A ^a   Gulati, Mittul ^a   Von Koch, Cornelia S ^a   Lyon, Russ ^a   Weinstein, Phillip R ^a   Yingling, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus   (United States)

Author keywords

adult presentation; electrophysiology; monitoring; outcome; Tethered cord syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACKACHE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LIPOMA; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3142740805     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2003.11.025     Document Type: Article

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