Intramedullary spinal cord tumors: the value of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring in a series of 57 cases from two Italian centres.

CONCLUSIONS: The gold standard in the intramedullary lesion treatment is maximal safe resection with good neurological outcome, as shown in our patients. The use of IONM is helpful in intramedullary tumors resection in order to minimize postoperative neurological deficits and our analysis suggests that the use of D-Wave presents a statistically significant higher accuracy for predicting postoperative deficits than SSEP and MEP alone. PMID: 31565906 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565906?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences - October 1, 2019 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: J Neurosurg Sci Source Type: research