Effects of spinal cord stimulation on the cortical somatosensory evoked potentials in failed back surgery syndrome patients

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1291-1302

  Poláček, Hubert ^a   Kozák, Jiří ^b   Vrba, Ivan ^c   Vrána, Jiří ^a   Stančák, Andrej ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^c NA HOMOLCE HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cortex; Evoked potentials; Failed back surgery syndrome; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; REACTION TIME; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 34248179062     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.02.029     Document Type: Article

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