Brain targets for pain control

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 173-179

  Davis, Karen D ^a   Lozano, Andres M ^a,b   Tasker, Ronald R ^a   Dostrovsky, Jonathan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortex; Pain; Spinothalamic tract; Stereotactic techniques; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MOTOR CORTEX; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STIMULATION; TARGET ORGAN; THALAMUS;

BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032323574     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029661     Document Type: Article

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