Occipital nerve stimulation: Technical and surgical aspects of implantation

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue , 2011, Pages 96-108

  Trentman, Terrence L ^a   Zimmerman, Richard S ^a   Dodick, David W ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ELECTRODE; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SPINAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATORS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL NERVES; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 83355160964     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000323043     Document Type: Article

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