E-Bulletin & NEWS

(HERENews & Special cases with IONM from our experience in Spain, Iceland, and Romania:

MION Synapse E-Bulletin


  • 24 November 2021 Runion AVANFIKE "MNIO multimodal en Cirugía de tumores de ángulo ponto-cerebeloso y áreas elocuentes cerebrales"HERE

  • 29 of October 2021 IONM plan for a lesion in the right temporal region in a patient with possible right language dominance (speech arrest with 15Hz stimulation from right Broca area) HERE

  • 9th of July 2021 Eforie Nord ASNER PPT (HERE)

  • 28 of August 2020 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM. "A" and "B" trains seen during removal of an eloquent area brainstem related tumor. Trigemino - facial and trigemino - vagal reflexes during vestibulocochlear Schwannoma tumor monitoring (here)

  • 17 of February 2020 IONM proposal protocol for right sensory-motor eloquent area cavernoma (here)

  • 9 of October 2019 MION Synapse started to contact the insurance companies in Barcelona for a better evaluation of our services (here).

  • 25 of June 2019 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM in Iceland. Right frontal oligodendroglioma. Reintervention (here) Iceland

  • 13 of May 2019 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM. Lipomyelomeningocele, multi-modal approach with neurosurgery guided by I.O.N.M. (Tarnoveanu et al, 2019) (here). Romanian Initiative Group "MIONSynapse" had the first important meeting at Marie Curie Emergency Children's Hospital Bucharest, on 3rd of May 2018. Romania

  • 8 of April 2019 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM. "B" and "C" trains seen during right CPA tumor surgery (here). Iceland

  • 14 of March 2019 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM. T9-T10 herniation. Use of MEP to rectus abdominal T8, T9, T11, T12 spinal nerves. (here) Iceland

  • 23 of January 2019 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM. Use of D-wave. Medular Herniation at T5 spinal level (here). Iceland

  • 1-6 May 2018 Clinical Neurophysiology Unit of Landspitali participated to the 31st International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN) of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) in Washington, DC, USA with the work "Intraoperative recording of somatosensory evoked potentials from both peripheral median nerve and proximal upper trunk to assess C5, C6 brachial plexus injury" (here) Iceland

  • 16 of March 2018 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM. Intramedular tumor C6-T8 (here) Iceland

  • 26 of February 2018 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring IONM. Right cerebellopontine angle (CPA) mass (here) Iceland

  • 18 of January 2017 Using of one cortical 8 contacts strip electrode for IONM corticography, direct cortical MEP and SSEP in awake surgery. Cortical excitability was assessed inter-hemispherical with resting motor threshold obtained by using trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (Case Report here). Iceland

  • 1 of December 2016 First awake surgery in Iceland, Left frontal lobe space-occupying lesion, 41/35 mm in diameter. (here) Iceland

  • October 2014 Intraoperative Neuromonitoring of Cerebellopontine Angle Mass (Case 1 / Oct 2014) Alba León Jorba MD, CN Specialist & Ovidiu C. Banea MD, CN Resident Copyright © 2014 Intraoperative Monitoring Group Barcelona IMGB (here) Spain