Treatment-limiting complications of percutaneous spinal cord stimulator implants: A review of eight years of experience from an academic center database

Neuromodulation

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 603-608

  Hayek, Salim M ^a,b   Veizi, Elias ^b,c   Hanes, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; neuropathic pain; outcomes; retrospective study; spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DEVICE SAFETY; DYSESTHESIA; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR DISCOMFORT; IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR MALFUNCTION; IMPLANTED SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR; INFECTION; LEAD FRACTURE; LEAD MALFUNCTION; LEAD MIGRATION; LUMBOSACRAL NEUROPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARESTHESIA; PELVIC PAIN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC PAIN; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84944441687     PISSN: 10947159     EISSN: 15251403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ner.12312     Document Type: Article

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