A case of spinal cord injury-related pain with baseline rCBF brain SPECT imaging and beneficial response to gabapentin

Pain

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-143

  Ness, Timothy J ^a   San Pedro, Elmer C ^a   Richards, J Scott ^b   Kezar, Laura ^b   Liu, Hong Gang ^a   Mountz, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain single photon emission computed tomography; Central pain; Gabapentin; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THALAMUS;

ACETIC ACIDS; ADULT; AMINES; ANALGESICS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031740296     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00153-5     Document Type: Article

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