title: Sensory component of cervically evoked motor potentials.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the hypothesis that cervically elicited motor evoked potentials which have recently gained clinical acceptance for monitoring spinal cord motor function during spine surgery, may be due, in part or in whole, to neural signals travelling through sensory rather than motor tracts. If true, then the interpretation of cervically elicited motor evoked potentials may lead to false conclusions about the status of motor tracts and postoperative motor function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Rose
mesh_terms: D004569:Electroencephalography; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013131:Spine / Q000601:surgery*