Braulio Hernández-Godínez, Alejandra Ibáñez-Contreras, Alfredo Durand-Rivera, Alfonso Galván-Montaño, Sergio Abraham Reyes-Pantoja, Eduardo Cárdenas-Lailson
BACKGROUND: Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) have been described as excellent indicators of the degree of medullar injury in degenerative and metabolic diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). The prevalence of neural tube defects (NTD) is 6 cases/10,000 live newborns worldwide. It is thought that genetic as well as environmental factors contribute to the etiology of NTD. The objective of this study was to analyze and compare the latencies obtained by means of SSEP in a clinically healthy monkey vs...
May 2011: Cirugia y Cirujanos