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Original Articles

Preventing Position-Related Brachial Plexus Injury with Intraoperative Somatosensory Evoked Potentials and Transcranial Electrical Motor Evoked Potentials during Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery

Faisal R. JahangiriImpulse Monitoring, Inc., Columbia, Maryland
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Andrea FlolmbergImpulse Monitoring, Inc., Columbia, Maryland
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Francisco Vega-BermudezAmerican Neuromonitoring Associates, Columbia, Maryland
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Vincent ArletDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
Pages 198-205 | Published online: 03 Feb 2015

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