Phantom limb pain: Low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in unaffected hemisphere

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Di Rollo, Andrea ^a,b   Pallanti, Stefano ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Institute for Neuroscience   (Italy)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHADONE; PREGABALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LIMB DYSESTHESIA; MALE; MIOSIS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84863801876     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/130751     Document Type: Article

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