Combined measurement of nerve root blood flow and electrophysiological values: Intraoperative straight-leg-raising test for lumbar disc herniation

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-62

  Takamori, Yoshihiro ^a   Arimizu, Jun ^a   Izaki, Teruaki ^a   Naito, Masatoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Tatsuki ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

electrophysiological values; intraoperative straight leg raising (SLR) test; Nerve root blood flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIA; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION DISORDER; NERVE ROOT; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIGHT LEG RAISING TEST; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISKECTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; JAPAN; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCIATICA; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751591261     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ccb1d4     Document Type: Article

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