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This study aims to present our experience of using transcranial motor evoked potential (Tc-MEP) as an IONM tool in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients undergoing navigation-assisted deformity correction and explore the potential risk factors associated with false-positive and true-positive IONM findings. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in 103 patients (mean age 16.2 \u00b1 4.0 years) undergoing corrective surgery for spinal deformity. All pediatric spinal deformity correction surgeries at the center were performed by a single senior spine surgeon, utilizing navigation and Tc-MEP to enhance the neurological safety profile. The sensitivity and the specificity of Tc-MEP were calculated. Results: Of the total cases, 87 patients (84.5%) exhibited no IONM signal alert and did not experience any postoperative neurological deficits, representing true negatives. There were no false-negative cases, which gives a negative predictive value of 100%. Significant IONM signal alerts were observed in 16 patients (15.5%), but only two patients (1.9%) experienced a postoperative motor deficit, representing true positives, which yielded a positive predictive value of 12.5%. Conclusions: This study demonstrated the sensitivity and specificity of Tc-MEP to be 100% and 86.3%, respectively, with a false-positive rate of 13.7%. Blood loss was the only factor significantly associated with IONM alerts, while age, gender, surgical duration, and anesthetic modality showed no significant differences.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm14217693","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,30]],"date-time":"2025-10-30T03:44:39Z","timestamp":1761795879000},"page":"7693","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Importance of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring for Corrective Surgery in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-6443-6005","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Boon Jein","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6685-7451","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Masato","family":"Tanaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takeshi","family":"Nakagawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Central Clinical Laboratory, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shinya","family":"Arataki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tadashi","family":"Komatsubara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Akiyoshi","family":"Miyamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Das","family":"Gurudip","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2525-9118","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maitreya","family":"Patil","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5594-1292","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Koji","family":"Uotani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama 700-8558, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4608-6677","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yoshiaki","family":"Oda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama 700-8558, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kensuke","family":"Shinohara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama 700-8558, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6935-0442","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tomoyoshi","family":"Sakaguchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama 702-8055, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"33","DOI":"10.1007\/s00402-004-0763-5","article-title":"Iatrogenic paraplegia in spinal surgery","volume":"125","author":"Delank","year":"2005","journal-title":"Arch. 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