Segmental innervation in lumbosacral transitional vertebrae (LSTV): A comparative clinical and intraoperative EMG study

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 734-741

  Hinterdorfer, Philipp ^a   Parsaei, Babak ^a   Stieglbauer, Karl ^a   Sonnberger, Michael ^a   Fischer, Johannes ^a   Wurm, Gabriele ^a  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL TRANSITIONAL VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE ROOT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICULAR PAIN; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ACTION POTENTIAL; BACK; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADICULOPATHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL ROOT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SPINAL STENOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954682569     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.187633     Document Type: Article

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