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Stereotact Funct Neurosurg · Jan 1992
Clinical and technical results from spinal stimulation for chronic pain of diverse pathophysiologies.
- J D Law.
- Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1992 Jan 1;59(1-4):21-4.
AbstractSpinal stimulation has been indicated for pain of peripheral deafferentation, but not for low-back pain. Technical and clinical records of 241 consecutive spinal stimulator recipients were reviewed, including: peripheral deafferentation pain (n = 44); predominant pain of low back, postlaminectomy (n = 96), and predominant pain of leg(s), postlaminectomy (n = 48). The groups were not statistically different with respect to important clinical features. For the postlaminectomy syndromes, only the technical results correlated significantly with outcome. Spinal stimulation actually yielded results as good for the 'failed back surgery syndrome' as for peripheral deafferentation pain, because newer technical methods were proven to stimulate the low back predictably.
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