The peroneal nerve is susceptible to injury due to compression at the fibular head for patients placed in the lithotomy, hemilithotomy
or lateral decubitus positions during surgery. Upper extremity somatosensory and transcranial electric motor evoked potential
monitoring has proven efficacious for identifying impending positional brachial plexopathy or upper extremity peripheral neuropathy
in adult and pediatric patients undergoing spine surgery. We report on two cases to illustrate the usefulness of monitoring
transcranial electric motor evoked potentials recorded from tibialis anterior muscle to identify emerging peroneal nerve compression
secondary to lateral decubitus positioning.
Keywords peroneal nerve palsy - lateral decubitus position - intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring - motor evoked potentials - somatosensory evoked potentials
Bhalodia VM, Sestokas AK, Tomak PR, Schwartz DM. Transcranial electric motor evoked potential detection of compressional peroneal
nerve injury in the lateral decubitus position.