Postoperative segmental C5 palsy after cervical laminoplasty may occur without intraoperative nerve injury: A prospective study with transcranial electric motor-evoked potentials

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 3013-3017

  Tanaka, Nobuhiro ^a   Nakanishi, Kazuyoshi ^a   Fujiwara, Yasushi ^a   Kamei, Naosuke ^a   Ochi, Mitsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C5 palsy; Cervical myelopathy; Laminoplasty; Motor evoked potential; Spinal cord monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAMINOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PAIN; PARALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33845737401     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000250303.17840.96     Document Type: Article

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