[Comparative study of somatosensory evoked potentials, whole body computer tomography and myelography in spinal...

Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) of the tibial nerve are of diagnostic value, if the recording points nearest to the spinous process are used. In cases with space-occupying lesions of the spinal cord, conduction block or amplitude reduction is the most common abnormality. In contrast in inflammatory diseases like spinal MS the most common abnormality is marked latency delay.