Diagnostic Performance and Clinical Outcomes of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Comprehensive Analysis of 5,206 Patients.
BACKGROUND Curve-specific risk factors for intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) alerts during surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) remain unclear. METHODS We identified 5,206 patients with AIS who underwent spinal fusion with multimodal IONM from a prospective database. Alerts were defined as ≥50% ampli...