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Intraoperative Neurophysiology during Surgery for Spinal Cord Tumors

  • Vedran Deletis
  • Kathleen Seidel
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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring Functional Neurophysiological Guidance Functional Integrity Spinal Cord Pathways Mapping Motor Evoked Potentials Sensory Evoked Potentials D-wave 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Vedran Deletis
    • 1
  • Kathleen Seidel
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of NeurosurgeryUniversity Hospital DubravaZagrebCroatia
  2. 2.Department of NeurosurgeryInselspital, Bern University HospitalBernSwitzerland

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