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Intraoperative Monitoring of Corticospinal Motor Evoked Potentials in Neurosurgical Operations

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Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Neurosurgery

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  1. Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173, Japan

    T. Tsubokawa

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  1. Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, W-5300, Bonn 1, Germany

    Johannes Schramm

  2. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 9402 Presbyterian-University Hospital, 230 Lothrop Street, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Aage R. Møller Ph. D. (Professor of Neurological Surgery) (Professor of Neurological Surgery)

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Tsubokawa, T. (1991). Intraoperative Monitoring of Corticospinal Motor Evoked Potentials in Neurosurgical Operations. In: Schramm, J., Møller, A.R. (eds) Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75750-1_12

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