Regional cerebral perfusion differences between periventricular grey, thalamic and dual target deep brain stimulation for chronic neuropathic pain

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 175-183

  Pereira, Erlick A C ^a   Green, Alexander L ^a   Bradley, Kevin M ^b   Soper, Nigel ^b   Moir, Liz ^a   Stein, John F ^a   Aziz, Tipu Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation; Functional imaging; Pain; Periventricular grey; SPECT; Ventroposterolateral thalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMPLANT; INSULA; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; PAIN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 34249897214     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101296     Document Type: Article

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