Clinical, functional and structural determinants of central pain in syringomyelia

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3409-3422

  Hatem, Samar M ^a,b   Attal, Nadine ^a   Ducreux, Denis ^c   Gautron, Michéle ^a   Parker, Fabrice ^c   Plaghki, Leon ^b   Bouhassira, Didier ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; laser evoked potentials; neuropathic pain; spinal cord; syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; DYSESTHESIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HAND; HUMAN; LASER; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NEEDLE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHOULDER; SKIN TINGLING; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 78049470491     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq244     Document Type: Article

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