Spinal Motor Evoked Potentials in Brain Surgery

Glioma Clinical Trial

Official title: Spinal Motor Evoked Potentials During Neurosurgical Procedures Within the Central Region

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial 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.

Clinical Trial Description

n/a

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Brain Neoplasms
• Brain Tumor
• Glioma

• NCT number: NCT02402075
• Study type: Observational
• Source: Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf
• Contact: Andrea Szelenyi, MD PhD
• Phone: +492118117646
• Email: andrea.szelenyi@uni-duesseldorf.de
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2014
• Completion date: December 2015