Elements of the pre-operative workup, case examples

Pain Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Villavicencio, Alan T ^a   Burneikiene, Sigita ^a  

^a Boulder Neurosurgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuromodulation; Patient selection; Pre operative workup; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LAMINECTOMY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; SCREENING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 33746432601     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2006.00121.x     Document Type: Review

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