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Transcranial Magnetically Evoked SCPs (TCM-Evoked SCPs)

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Evoked Spinal Cord Potentials

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Spinal cord function monitoring during spine or spinal cord surgery has been carried out mostly with the use of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) induced by peripheral nerve stimulation and recorded from the scalp (Grundy and Villani, 1988; McPherson and Ducker, 1988). The scalp SEPs, however, do not directly reflect the activities of the motor system, and surgical manipulations of the spine or spinal cord often affect the motor systems without producing SEP abnormalities (Ginsburg et al., 1985; Ben-David et al., 1987). Motor-evoked potentials from the peripheral muscles (motor-evoked electromyograms, or EMGs) induced by transcranial magnetic (Barker and Jalinous, 1985) or electrical (Merton and Morton, 1980) stimulation were developed, and might have advantages over SEPs during surgery in which manipulations of the motor tracts are predicted (Kawaguchi and Furuya, 2004).

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  1. Frontier University Ube Graduate School of Human Sciences, 2-1-1 Bunkyodai, Ube, Yamaguchi, 755-0805, Japan

    Koki Shimoji M.D., Ph.D., FRCA (Professor, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor) (Professor, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor)

  2. Niigata University, Niigata

    Koki Shimoji M.D., Ph.D., FRCA (Professor, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor) (Professor, Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor)

  3. Saitama Medical College, Japan

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  4. University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX, 77555-1069, USA

    William D. Willis Jr. M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology) (Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology)

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Tobita, T., Shimoji, K. (2006). Transcranial Magnetically Evoked SCPs (TCM-Evoked SCPs). In: Shimoji, K., Willis, W.D. (eds) Evoked Spinal Cord Potentials. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-30901-2_10

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