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Motor Evoked Potentials Following Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cervical Myelopathy

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Spinal Cord Monitoring and Electrodiagnosis

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation is now considered a useful electrophysiological technique for evaluating central motor tracts. We investigated the latency of the motor evoked potential (MEP) following magnetic stimulation in normal subjects and in patients with cervical myelopathy. It was suggested from our results that the latency of the MEP following scalp or spinal stimulation increased in patients with cervical myelopathy. The purpose of this report is to show the results of measurement of the magnetic MEP latency after scalp, spinal, Erb’s point, and elbow stimulation in healthy subjects and in patients with cervical myelopathy.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada-machi, Ishikawa-ken, 920-02, Japan

    Y. Nishijima

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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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Nishijima, Y., Okada, M., Izumi, T., Toda, N., Yamazaki, Y. (1991). Motor Evoked Potentials Following Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cervical Myelopathy. 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_32

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