Significance of intraoperative motor function monitoring using transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials (MEP) in patients with spinal and cranial lesions near the motor pathways

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-55

  Krammer, Matthias Johannes ^a   Wolf, Stefan ^a   Schul, David Baruch ^a   Gerstner, Werner ^a   Lumenta, Christianto Bernardo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral tumour; Intraoperative monitoring; Motor evoked potentials; Motor pathways; Spinal tumour

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MELANOCYTOSIS; MENINGIOMA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEURILEMOMA; NEURINOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD LESION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WEAKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61649110757     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690802563349     Document Type: Article

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