Center median-parafascicular complex and pain control: Review from a neurosurgical perspective

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 115-126

  Weigel, Ralf ^a   Krauss, Joachim K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Center median parafascicularis complex; Deep brain stimulation; Functional neurosurgery; Pain; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; ANATOMY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; INTRACTABLE PAIN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STELLATE GANGLION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; PAIN;

EID: 4344718897     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079843     Document Type: Review

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