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8279285

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-2-10
pubmed:abstractText
Thalamotomy and electrical stimulation of a thalamic target as treatment for persistent pain are discussed. Thalamotomy is only rarely performed these days according to a questionnaire, given to some colleagues, about the type and the number of operations they performed in the years 1984, 1985 and 1986. The need for stimulation in the periventricular or periaqueductal grey for nociceptive pain is decreasing due to the advent of intraspinal and intraventricular administration of opioids. Nowadays medial and lateral ventro-posterior thalamic nuclei are frequently stimulated for treatment of deafferentation pain. Of 36 patients with deafferentation pain, 22 initially had benefit from this stimulation, but long-term success was only achieved in 11 (30%) of them. It was a general trend that the patients with an initial high pain relief score obtained the best long-term results.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0001-6268
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
124
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
19-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Therapeutic stereotactic procedures on the thalamus for pain.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, K.U.L. University of Leuven, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't