Dysesthetic pain in patients with syringomyelia

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 940-947

  Milhorat, Thomas H ^b   Kotzen, Rene M ^b   Mu, Harrison T M ^b   Capocelli Jr , Anthony L ^b   Milhorat, Robert H ^b   Long, D M ^a   Batzdorf, U ^a   Favre, J ^a   Burchiel, K J ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Causalgia; Chiari I malformation; Dysesthetic pain; Neuropeptides; Spinal cord; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSALGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYRINGOMYELIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029883591     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199605000-00017     Document Type: Article

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