Spinal cord stimulation for intractable chronic pain

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Kapural, Leonardo ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Neuromodulation; Neurostimulation; Spinal cord stimulation; Vaso occusive syndrome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFECTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NERVE ROOT INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VEIN OCCLUSION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; FEMALE; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84894618076     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0406-7     Document Type: Article

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