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Cervical myelopathy is commonly diagnosed by neurologic examination and radiologic examination, such as myelography, computed tomography and MRI. However the specific level of the major lesion has sometimes been difficult to determine by these methods in the patients with multisegmental spondylosis, ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), and a narrow spinal canal. The purpose of this study is to improve identification of the level of major lesion in cervical myelopathy using somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) techniques.
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Kawahara, N., Baba, H., Nagata, S., Kikuchi, Y., Tomita, K., Yugami, H. (1994). Level diagnosis of cervical myelopathy using somatosensory evoked potentials. In: Jones, S.J., Hetreed, M., Boyd, S., Smith, N.J. (eds) Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1416-5_27
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