Localization of cervical and cervicomedullary stimulation leads for pain treatment using median nerve somatosensory evoked potential collision testing: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 200-205

  Balzer, Jeffrey R ^a   Tomycz, Nestor D ^a   Crammond, Donald J ^a   Habeych, Miguel ^a   Thirumala, Parthasarathy D ^a   Urgo, Louisa ^a   Moossy, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraoperative monitoring; Pain; Somatosensory evoked potential; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PAIN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL COLLISION TEST; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 78651266826     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.5.JNS091640     Document Type: Article

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