The effects of temporary spinal cord stimulation (or spinal nerve root stimulation) on the management of early postherpetic neuralgia from one to six months of its onset

Neuromodulation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-154

  Yanamoto, Fujio ^a,b   Murakawa, Kazushige ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Postherpetic neuralgia; spinal cord stimulation; temporary spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; LEAD; MEPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEEDLE; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL ROOT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859579187     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: 15251403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2012.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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