Managing chronic pain with spinal cord stimulation

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-132

  Epstein, Lawrence J ^a   Palmieri, Marco ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic pain; complex regional pain; failed back surgery syndrome; intractable angina; spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; BICUCULLINE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; COMPLICATION; DEVICE INFECTION; ELECTRODE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LIQUORRHEA; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; THEORY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84855801332     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.21289     Document Type: Article

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