Safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with implanted cortical electrodes. An ex-vivo study and report of a case

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1109-1115

  Phielipp, Nicolás M ^a,c   Saha, Utpal ^a   Sankar, Tejas ^b   Yugeta, Akihiro ^a,d   Chen, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical electrodes; rTMS; Safety; TMS

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CANNABINOID; CARBAMAZEPINE; DULOXETINE; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; LEVETIRACETAM; NORTRIPTYLINE; OXYCODONE; PAROXETINE; PREGABALIN;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICAL ELECTRODE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURFACE AREA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION SYSTEM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DEVICES; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; EVALUATION STUDY; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; PROCEDURES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 85014102310     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2017.01.021     Document Type: Article

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