Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring of the cortico-spinal tract in image-guided mini-invasive neurosurgery

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1244-1254

  Cordella, Roberto ^a   Acerbi, Francesco ^a   Broggi, Morgan ^a   Vailati, Davide ^a   Nazzi, Vittoria ^a   Schiariti, Marco ^a   Tringali, Giovanni ^a   Ferroli, Paolo ^a   Franzini, Angelo ^a   Broggi, Giovanni ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortico spinal tract; Intraoperative neurophysiology; Mini invasive neurosurgery; Motor eloquent area; Supratentorial tumors

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MONITORING; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEIZURE; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84878107512     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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