Incorporating Intraoperative Mechanomyography to Peripheral Nerve Decompression Surgery.

Jaime R GuerreroKhaled M TaghlabiLokeshwar S BhenderuJesus G Cruz-GarzaSaad JaveedChristopher F DibbleWilson Z RayAmir H Faraji

Published in: Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) (2023)

MMG may provide objective guidance for the intraoperative determination of the extent of nerve decompression. Lower stimulus thresholds may represent increased sparing of axonal tissue. Future work should focus on validating normative values of MMG stimulus thresholds in various nerves and establishing clinical associations with functional outcomes.

Keyphrases

peripheral nerve
minimally invasive
robot assisted
patients undergoing
spinal cord injury
coronary artery bypass
current status
molecularly imprinted
surgical site infection
acute coronary syndrome
coronary artery disease
mass spectrometry