Cervicomedullary junction spinal cord stimulation for head and facial pain

Headache

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 418-425

  Tomycz, Nestor D ^a   Deibert, Christopher P ^a   Moossy, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervicomedullary junction; Facial pain; Head pain; Neuropathic pain; Occipital neuralgia; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEURALGIA; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; POST HERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TELEPHONE; TRIGEMINAL DEAFFERENTATION PAIN; TRIGEMINAL NEUROPATHIC PAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952280755     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01829.x     Document Type: Article

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