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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 False negatives and false positives of intraoperative monitoring

From: Should evoked potential monitoring be used in degenerative cervical spine surgery? A systematic review

Study name

Year

No. of patients

False negatives

False positives

Sensitivity and specificity

Garcia et al.

2010

80

SSEP = 0

SSEP = 1

(100%; 99%)

Xu et al.

2011

57

SSEP = 2, MEP = 0

SSEP = 2, MEP = 1

(33%; 95,6%) (100%; 98%)

Eggspuehler et al.

2007

246

SSEP = 2

SSEP = 2

(83%; 99%)

  1. IOM intraoperative monitoring, SSEP somatosensory evoked potential, MEP motor evoked potential