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Motor and Sensory Tract Activation Following Epidural Electrical Stimulation

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Spinal Cord Monitoring and Electrodiagnosis

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There is a need for a more precise method of spinal cord monitoring to assess entire spinal cord function including motor and sensory tracts and to do this with a single simultaneous test.

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  1. Twin Cities Scoliosis Center, 920 East 28th Street Suite 40, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, USA

    E. Transfeldt

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Asahi-Machi 1, Niigata 951, Japan

    Koki Shimoji M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

    Takahide Kurokawa M.D. (Professor and Director) (Professor and Director)

  3. Department of Orthopaedics, Wakayama Medical College, Wakayama, Japan

    Tetsuya Tamaki M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  4. Marine Biomedical Institute Ashbel Smith, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 200 University Boulevard, 77550-2772, Galveston, Texas, USA

    William D. Willis Jr. M.D., PhD. (Director) (Director)

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Transfeldt, E., Niznik, G., Shichijo, F., Ohshima, T., Pomeranz, B. (1991). Motor and Sensory Tract Activation Following Epidural Electrical Stimulation. In: Shimoji, K., Kurokawa, T., Tamaki, T., Willis, W.D. (eds) Spinal Cord Monitoring and Electrodiagnosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75744-0_2

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