Sarnthein, J; Bozinov, O; Melone, A G; Bertalanffy, Helmut (2011). Motor-evoked potentials (MEP) during brainstem surgery to preserve corticospinal function. Acta Neurochirurgica, 153(9):1753-1759.
Brainstem surgery bears a risk of damage to the corticospinal tract (CST). Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) are used intraoperatively to monitor CST function in order to detect CST damage at a reversible stage and thus impede permanent neurological deficits. While the method of MEP is generally accepted, warning criteria in the context of brainstem surgery still have to be agreed on.
Brainstem surgery bears a risk of damage to the corticospinal tract (CST). Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) are used intraoperatively to monitor CST function in order to detect CST damage at a reversible stage and thus impede permanent neurological deficits. While the method of MEP is generally accepted, warning criteria in the context of brainstem surgery still have to be agreed on.
| Item Type: | Journal Article, refereed, original work |
|---|---|
| Communities & Collections: | 04 Faculty of Medicine > Center for Integrative Human Physiology
04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Clinic for Neurosurgery |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 570 Life sciences; biology
610 Medicine & health |
| Scopus Subject Areas: | Health Sciences > Surgery
Health Sciences > Neurology (clinical) |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | September 2011 |
| Deposited On: | 28 Dec 2011 14:10 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2022 19:48 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISSN: | 0001-6268 |
| Additional Information: | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
| OA Status: | Green |
| Publisher DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-011-1065-7 |
| PubMed ID: | 21660421 |
Sarnthein, J