Awake far lateral craniotomy for resection of foramen magnum meningioma in a patient with tenuous motor and somatosensory evoked potentials

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1254-1256

  Deipolyi, Amy R ^a   Han, Seunggu J ^b   Sughrue, Michael E ^b   Litt, Lawrence ^b   Parsa, Andrew T ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake craniotomy; Far lateral approach; Meningioma; Motor evoked potential

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRANIOTOMY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH;

AGED; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 79960991320     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2010.12.046     Document Type: Article

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