Table 5.

MIOM of true positive cases (n = 10) out of 246 patients operated on cervical spine

True positive cases of cervical
Patient	Region	Pathology	Surgery	Duration (h)	IOM modalities	IOM-baseline	IOM-changes	Neurological deterioration	Duration	Recovery
F, 44 years	C0–C7	Rheumatoid arthritis	Decompression and fusion, ventral and dorsal	6	csEP, cmEP BR ADM, nsEP, ncEP MN, TN, cont EMG	All available, but pathologic	Deterioration of pyramidal tract and dorsal tract function left arm	Central paresis left arm	After 2 days reoperation	Complete
F, 77 years	C1–C6	Rheumatoid arthritis	Decompression and fusion C0–T1	3.8	csEP, cmEP BR ADM	All available, but pathologic	Alteration of csEP and cmEP left arm	Central paresis left arm	3 months	Complete
M, 40 years	C3–C4	Spondylotic cervical myelopathy	Decompression and fusion ventral	2.8	cmEP BR ADM, ncEP MN, cont EMG	All available, but pathologic	Loss of cmEP BR right	Sensomotor radiculopathy C5 right	2 months	Complete
M, 79 years	C3–C5	Degenerative stenosis and instability	Decompression and fusion ventral and dorsal	4.8	csEP, cmEP BR ADM, ncEP MN, cont EMG	All available, but pathologic	Alteration of ncEP MN right	Proprioceptiv deficits arm right	1 day	Complete
M, 66 years	C3–C5	Spondylotic cervical myelopathy	Decompression dorsal	3.5	csEP, cmEP BR ADM, ncEP MN TN, nsEP, cont EMG	All available but pathologic	Alteration cmEP arm and leg right	Deterioration of preexisting heavy spasticity	2 months	Complete
F, 61 years	C5–C6	Spondylotic cervical myelopathy	Decompressin and fusion ventral and dorsal	3.3	csEP, cmEP BR ADM, ncEP MN, cont EMG	All available but pathologic	Deterioration of cmEP ADM right at end of decompression	Central paresis arm right	1 day	complete
M, 78 years	C3–C7	Spondylotic cervical myelopathy	Laminoplasty C3–C7	3.8	cmEP BR ADM, ncEP MN, cont EMG	All available but pathologic ncEP	Deterioration of cmEP and ncEP left	Deterioration of central paresis left	1 day	Complete
F, 56 years	C4–6	Spondylotic myelopathy and radiculopthy C6 bilateral	Decompression and fusion, ventral	3.5	cmEP BB TM TA, ncEP MN, cont EMG	All available but pathologic	Deterioration of all cmEP right	Deterioration of preexisting paresis right	3 months	Complete
m, 73 y	C4–C6	Spondylotic cervical myelopathy	Decompression and fusion ventral	4.8	cmEP DM BB TA, cont EMG, ncEP MN TN	All available but pathologic	Deterioration of cmEP DM left	C5 radiculopathy left	1 month	Complete
M, 65 y	C4–C7	Spondylotic cervical myelopathy	Decompression and fusion ventral	6	cmEP DM BR ADM, cont EMG, ncEP MN TN	All available but pathologic	Deterioration of cmEP DM left	C5 radiculopathy left	5 months	Complete