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Despite meticulous microsurgical technique there is a postoperative increase in neurological deficit after spinal cord operations, especially in difficult cases like angiomas or intramedullary tumors (4). Spinal cord monitoring is based on the concept of early intraoperative detection of spinal cord function impairment in order to adapt the surgical technique to minimize possible damage to important structures (1, 2, 3, 7, 13,15, 17, 18). The personal judgment of the surgeon is supported by the objective registration of evoked potentials. In this paper, our method and first results will be presented.
This paper is not identical to the work submitted for the Travenol prize, as the latter did not lend itself to a shortened version, necessary for this publication. However, this paper does contain a representative part of the work presented for the prize.
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Schramm, J. (1986). Intraoperative Spinal Cord Monitoring. In: Wenker, H., Klinger, M., Brock, M., Reuter, F. (eds) Spinal Cord Tumors Experimental Neurosurgery Neurosurgical Intensive Care. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71108-4_4
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