The value of intraoperative motor evoked potential monitoring during surgical intervention for thoracic idiopathic spinal cord herniation. Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-126

  Novak, Klaus ^a,b   Widhalm, Georg ^a   De Camargo, Adauri Bueno ^b   Perin, Noel ^b   Jallo, George ^b,c   Knosp, Engelbert ^a   Deletis, Vedran ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motor evoked potential; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury; Thoracic idiopathic spinal cord herniation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; THORACIC IDIOPATHIC SPINAL CORD HERNIATION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BACK PAIN; EPIDURAL SPACE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HERNIA; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARAPARESIS, SPASTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL STENOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84856773514     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.10.SPINE11109     Document Type: Article

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