Success rate of motor evoked potentials for intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring: Effects of age, lesion location, and preoperative neurologic deficits

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 281-285

  Chen, Xi ^a   Sterio, Djordje ^a   Ming, Xu ^a   Para, Devaki D ^a   Butusova, Marri ^a   Tong, Teresa ^a   Beric, Aleksandar ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound muscle action potential; Cortical stimulation; Intraoperative monitoring; Motor evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34249877952     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0b013e31802ed2d4     Document Type: Article

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