Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Spinal Motor Evoked Potentials in Brain Surgery
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Trial Identification
Brief Title: Spinal Motor Evoked Potentials in Brain Surgery
Official Title: Spinal Motor Evoked Potentials During Neurosurgical Procedures Within the Central Region
Study ID: NCT02402075
Interventions
Study Description
Brief 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.
Detailed Description:
Eligibility
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Locations
Neurosurgical Department, Duesseldorf, , Germany
Department of Neurosurgery, Frankfurt, , Germany
Contact Details
Name: Andrea Szelenyi, MD PhD
Affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Heinrich Heine University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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