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Clinical impotence of somatosensory evoked potentials in early diagnoses of syringomyelia

We report a rare case of syringomyelia, the development of which was monitored by somatosensory evoked potentials. The evoked potentials recorded over an eight months’ period of time were correlated with the incidence of syringomyelia. Changes of evoked response latency and amplitude were detected. The evoked potential change and the sensation deficit indicated a pathological process. High-resolution MRI revealed syringomyelia in the cervical and the thoracic segments of the spinal cord. Somatosensory evoked potentials represent a sensitive diagnostic method recording changes in the biopotentials. Potential changes require localization of a possible process and high-resolution MRI. Evoked potentials enable to monitor both, the desease development, but also the healing process (Fig.3, Ref.11).

syringomyelia ; SSEP ; MRI

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