Reliability of Intraoperative Monitoring in Patients with a Preexisting Motor Deficit: Case Report and Literature Review.
Ravindran VisaganJosé Pedro LavradorShami AcharyaNoemia PereiraIstvan BodiKeyoumars AshkanRanjeev BhangooF VerganiPublished in: Journal of neurological surgery. Part A, Central European neurosurgery (2020)
Preoperative weakness is traditionally accepted as a relative contraindication to IOM and therefore its usefulness is questioned in this context. Our case challenges this assumption. We present the clinical course, review the cranial and spinal literature including the reliability of IOM in cases of preoperative motor deficit, and discuss the need for tailor-made IOM strategies.
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