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Intraoperative Neurophysiology during Surgery for Spinal Cord Tumors

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Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring might allow surgical tumor resection with functional guidance and real-time feed-back. The available methods can be divided in monitoring methods to continuously assess the functional integrity and mapping methods to identify eloquent tissue. In the following chapter we describe indication, set-up, interpretation and limitations of available neurophysiological methods in spinal cord tumor surgery.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia

    Vedran Deletis

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

    Kathleen Seidel

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    Ziya L. Gokaslan

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Deletis, V., Seidel, K. (2019). Intraoperative Neurophysiology during Surgery for Spinal Cord Tumors. In: Arnautović, K.I., Gokaslan, Z.L. (eds) Spinal Cord Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99438-3_7

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