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Since the first papers on evoked potential studies in clinical practice1–5. a number of reports have appeared covering spinal disease6–10. Only very few papers with segmental application of SEP recording in spinal disease have come to our knowledge. In the last three years, we have carried out nearly 600 examinations with segmental SEP recordings. In this paper we present our experience with a number of patients referred with a suspected spinal cord lesion and describe the results from the clinical application of (poly-) segmental recorded SEP. The possible value of patterns of SEP alteration as a better criterion of abnormality was investigated. We attempted to clarify the advantages of the segmental recording technique and to determine whether particular disease processes have a specific SEP pattern.
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Schramm, J., Oettle, G.J., Pichert, T. (1980). Clinical application of segmental somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) — experience in patients with non-space occupying lesions. In: Barber, C. (eds) Evoked Potentials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6645-4_53
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