Monitoring motor function during resection of tumours in the lower brain stem and fourth ventricle

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• 作者：Sven Gl?sker ; Ulrich Pechstein ; Vassilios I. Vougioukas and Vera Van Velthoven
• 关键词：Intraoperative neuromonitoring ; Brain stem ; Haemangioblastoma ; Ependymoma ; Electromyography ; Cranial nerves
• 刊名：Child's Nervous System
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：October, 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：22
• 期：10
• 页码：1288-1295
• 全文大小：201 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Neurosurgery
  Neurosciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-0350

文摘

Objectives Even in the days of modern microsurgery, the removal of a brain stem lesion remains a surgical challenge. Especially when operating on children, the prognosis is directly related to the radicality of the resection; however, a radical resection is often associated with surgical morbidity. Intraoperative neuromonitoring could help to minimise the surgical morbidity, but few studies have been performed to clarify the value of this monitoring. We investigated a prospective series of 21 patients with lesions involving the brain stem for the prognostic value and benefits of neuromonitoring.