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Does somatosensory evoked potential monitoring have a role during cervical corpectomy?

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boxed-textKhan MH et al. (2006) Intraoperative somatosensory evoked potential monitoring during cervical spine corpectomy surgery: experience with 508 cases. Spine 31: E105–E113

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    Dileep R Nair & Hans Lüders

  2. Chairman of the Department of Neurology, both at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

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