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Spinal Motor Evoked Potentials in Brain Surgery

NCT02402075 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2015-03-30

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Summary

During neurosurgical resection of brain tumors within brain areas for motor control, it is important to monitor motor function. For this muscle motor evoked potentials are used. Those are elicited by transcranial and direct cortical stimulation. Motor responses are recorded from muscles. In neurosurgical procedures for spinal cord tumors, the same methods are used, but additionally motor activity is recorded from the spinal cord. This is called spinal motor evoked potentials. It is known that the relation between spinal and muscle motor evoked potentials helps to extent the resection of spinal cord tumors. This study implements the spinal motor evoked potential into brain tumor surgery and analyses the relationship between spinal and muscle motor evoked potentials. With this, detection of injury to the brain area for motor control might be discovered earlier and thus tumor resection can be performed safely.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Andrea Szelenyi, MD PhD · Neurosurgical Department, Heinrich Heine University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

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