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One patient had lipomyelomeningocele-related, 4 had myelomeningocele-related, and 1 had diastematomyelia and lipomyelomeningocele-related TCS. In addition to the routine preparations that are needed for performing functional mapping and monitoring during surgery for spinal dysraphism and TCS, the patients had a 1 \u00d7 4 strip of electrodes placed rostral to the surgical field, where it was secured by a surgeon after opening the dura. With the patient under total intravenous anesthesia, the sensory nerves and conus medullaris were stimulated with a concentric bipolar electrode over the surgical field while SEPs were recorded with the strip electrodes to identify any possible sensory roots with remaining function and the most inferior functional portion of the conus medullaris.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>RESULTS<\/jats:title>The SEP amplitudes that were recorded with the subdural strip electrodes ranged from 4 to 400 \u03bcV, and the responses to sensory nerve stimulation were frequently much larger than were those to conus stimulation. Use of the SEP recordings for sensory mapping along with the routine mapping and monitoring techniques allowed detethering to be completed such that none of the patients sustained any new functional deficit after surgery.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>Recording SEPs from the functional sensory nerves and conus medullaris through subdural strip electrodes proved to be a feasible and valuable tool during detethering surgery in young patients. 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