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Clinical application of spinal cord action potential measurement

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The authors have attempted to establish a practical technique for recording human and animal spinal cord action potentials evoked by epidural electrical stimulation and to correlate the findings with both clinically occurring and experimentally produced spinal cord lesions.

Examples of the clinical and per-operative applications of the technique are described.

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Les auteurs ont cherché à mettre au point une technique usuelle d'enregistrement, chez l'homme et chez l'animal, du potentiel d'action de la moelle provoqué par une stimulation électrique épidurale. Ils ont également cherché à mettre leurs résultats en corrélation avec des lésions médullaires observées en clinique et d'autres réalisées expérimentalement.

Description de quelques exemples d'application clinique et peropératoire de cette technique.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Naoichi Tsuyama, Nobuyuki Tsuzuki, Takahide Kurokawa & Takuo Imai

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Tsuyama, N., Tsuzuki, N., Kurokawa, T. et al. Clinical application of spinal cord action potential measurement. International Orthopaedics 2, 39–46 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266001

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