Neurosurgical aspects of the management of chronic pain in the third millennium. Multidisciplinary pain units;Aspectos neuroquirúrgicos del tratamiento del dolor crónico en el tercer milenio. Las unidades multidisciplinarias del dolor

Revista de la Sociedad Espanola del Dolor

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 481-507

  Robaina, F J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CHRONIC PAIN; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SPONDYLOSIS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

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