“…Although it is not regularly used in an obvious tetraplegic patient and the benefits of IONM in giving a positive predictive value remains controversial, the experience of using IONM in our center leads us to regularly use this modality in cervical surgery as this modality often give a positive predictive value in our patients. Besides, the evidence of transient tetraplegia following CCI in pre-existing stenosis in literature leads us to detect the improvement as early as possible [12] , [14] .…”