Chapter 35 Partial conduction block in cervical compression myelopathies: waveform changes of ascending spinal evoked potentials

Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 59, Issue C, 2006, Pages 265-274

  Tani, Toshikazu ^a   Ushida, Takahiro ^a   Taniguchi, Shinichirou ^a   Ishida, Kenji ^a   Tsuboya, Hideshi ^a   Ikemoto, Tatsunori ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33748660892     PISSN: 1567424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-424X(09)70039-X     Document Type: Article

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