Protecting the genitofemoral nerve during Direct/Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion (DLIF/XLIF) procedures

Neurodiagnostic Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 321-335

  Jahangiri, Faisal R ^a   Sherman, Jonathan H ^b   Holmberg, Andrea ^a   Louis, Robert ^b   Elias, Jeff ^b   Vega Bermudez, Francisco ^c  

^a Impulse Monitoring Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c American Neuromonitoring Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Cremaster muscle; Direct lateral interbody fusion (DLIF); Electromyography (EMG); Extreme lateral interbody fusion (XLIF); Genitofemoral nerve; Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM); Lateral retroperitoneal approach; Somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP); Spontaneous electromyography (S EMG); Triggered electromyography (T EMG)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE;

CREMASTER MUSCLE; GENITOFEMORAL NERVE; INTERBODY FUSION; INTRA-OPERATIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING (IONM); LATERAL RETROPERITONEAL APPROACH; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS; SPONTANEOUS ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (S-EMG); TRIGGERED ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (T-EMG);

HEALTH;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADICULOPATHY; SPINE FUSION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 79851489441     PISSN: 21646821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1086508x.2010.11079786     Document Type: Article

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