Spinal Cord Stimulation to Treat Postthoracotomy Neuralgia: Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report

Pain Management Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-59

  Wininger, Kevin L ^a   Bester, Michelle L ^a   Deshpande, Kedar K ^a  

^a Orthopaedic and Spine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; THORACOTOMY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PNEUMONECTOMY; SPINAL CORD; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 84856942321     PISSN: 15249042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2011.11.001     Document Type: Review

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