Complications of spinal cord stimulation: Identification, treatment, and prevention

Pain Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Deer, Timothy R ^a,b   Stewart, C Douglas ^a  

^a Center for Pain Relief   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Prevention; Risks; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ANESTHESIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GENERATOR; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; RADICULITIS; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEROMA; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 44349163445     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2008.00444.x     Document Type: Review

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