Percutaneous cordotomy, tractotomy, and midline myelotomy: Minimally invasive stereotactic pain procedures

Seminars in Neurosurgery

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 203-219

  Kanpolat, Yucel ^a,b  

^a School of Medicine ^*  (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CT guidance; Destructive; Intractable pain; Minimally invasive; Pain procedures; Selective

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ANESTHESIA DOLOROSA; ATAXIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANCER PAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORDOTOMY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACE PAIN; GENERATOR; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NEURALGIA; HEMIPARESIS; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOALGESIA; HYPOTENSION; IMAGING; IMPOTENCE; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LUNG EDEMA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDLINE MYELOTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROSURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS CORDOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL TRACTOTOMY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; URINE RETENTION; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 7444232429     PISSN: 15268012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-835709     Document Type: Review

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