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The monitoring of conductive spinal cord evoked potentials (conductive SpEPs) has been widely used for the purpose of preventing damage to the spinal cord during operation [5, 7–9]. It has not been resolved whether changes in the conductive SpEPs correlate to the pathological condition of the spinal cord under chronic pressure or not. Excision of the tumor usually ensures recovery from paralysis caused by chronic pressure and circulatory disturbance due to extramedullary spinal cord tumors. Therefore patients with spinal cord tumors are useful models for studying changes of the conductive SpEPs in the spinal cord under chronic pressure. The purpose of this study is to investigate a correlation between changes in the conductive SpEPs and prognosis of the patients.
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Yokogushi, K., Katahira, G., Yokozawa, H., Kawamura, H., Yamashita, T., Ogiwara, N. (1991). Analysis of Conductive Spinal Cord Function Using Spinal Cord Evoked Potentials During Surgery of Spinal Cord Tumors. 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_48
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