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Quantification of lumbar nerve root decompression using somatosensory-evoked potentials.
Journal of Spinal Disorders 1995 December
Intraoperative somatosensory-evoked potential (SSEP) data were collected prospectively in a consecutive series of patients with an acute lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP). Each patient underwent an open limited diskectomy, hemilaminotomy, and partial foraminotomy. The sequence of diskectomy and bony decompression was randomized, and the extent of foraminotomy was standardized. SSEP data were recorded after each operative procedure and were coded for blind interpretation. SSEP tracings were compared with each patient's baseline for changes in latency and amplitude. In the overall study, changes in amplitude and latency produced by diskectomy versus bony decompression were not statistically significant. In the six patients with lateral recess stenosis (LRS), a statistically significant reduction in latency was observed after bony decompression (averaging -2.05 ms) compared with diskectomy (-0.62 ms). In patients with underlying LRS and a HNP, minimally invasive techniques addressing the disc only may be inadequate to decompress a lumbar nerve root.
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