Multimodal intraoperative neuromonitoring in corrective surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Evaluation of 354 consecutive cases

Indian Journal of Orthopaedics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-72

  Kundnani, Vishal ^a   Zhu, Lisa ^a   Tak, H ^a   Wong, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Neurogenic motor evoked potentials; Neuromonitoring; Scoliosis; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 74949116073     PISSN: 00195413     EISSN: 19983727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.58608     Document Type: Article

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