Deep brain stimulation for intractable pain: A 15-year experience

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 736-747

  Kumar, Krishna ^a,b   Toth, Cory ^a   Math, Rahul K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Neurological Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Deep brain electrical stimulation; Periaqueductal gray matter; Sensory thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CANCER PAIN; CAUSALGIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD LESION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADULT; AGED; BACK PAIN; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURALGIA; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 0030998088     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199704000-00015     Document Type: Article

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