DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2016.v04i02.013

Pages: 97-101

Neurologic injury is one of the most serious complications from corrective surgery of severe kyphoscoliosis. To avoid this complication, optimal intraoperative neurologic monitoring is required, which should provide the information regarding spinal cord integrity as soon as possible. Recently, intraoperative motor evoked potentials monitoring has been used with increasing frequency to detect the spinal cord injury. We report a case of postoperative paraplegia following scoliosis correction surgery under motor evoked potentials monitoring, which was misrecognized as false-positive signals of motor evoked potentials by surgeons intraoperatively.