Experience with 509 plate electrodes implanted epidurally from c1 to l1

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 60-79

  Barolat, Giancarlo ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrodes; Epidural space; Epidural spinal cord stimulation; Motor disorders; Pain, chronic; Spinal cord; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; CHILD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPIDURAL SPACE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0027853158     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: 14230372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100624     Document Type: Article

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