Intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring in spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 2167-2179

  Malhotra, Neil R ^a   Shaffrey, Christopher I ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

intraoperative neuromonitoring; multimodality neuromonitoring; spinal surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROMONITORING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE SURGERY;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD; SPINE;

EID: 78650542397     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181f6f0d0     Document Type: Article

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