Thoracic radiculopathy following spinal cord stimulator placement: Case series

Neuromodulation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 443-448

  Mammis, Antonios ^a   Bonsignore, Christopher ^b   Mogilner, Alon Y ^c  

^a New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

^b HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuromodulation; neurostimulation; spinal cord stimulation; thoracic radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; DERMATOME; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADICULAR PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR; THORACIC RADICULOPATHY; THORAX PAIN;

NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSTIMULATION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; THORACIC RADICULOPATHY;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887116124     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: 15251403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ner.12076     Document Type: Article

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