Risk factors for false positive transcranial motor evoked potential monitoring alerts during surgical treatment of cervical myelopathy

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 3041-3046

  Kim, David H ^a,c   Zaremski, Jason ^a   Kwon, Brian ^a   Jenis, Louis ^a   Woodard, Eric ^a   Bode, Robert ^b   Banco, Robert J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical myelopathy; Motor evoked potential monitoring; Neurophysiologic monitoring; Recommendations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349000556     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31815d0072     Document Type: Article

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