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Five-Year Follow-Up of a Cordotomy [PDF]
Pain Research and Management, 2008 Percutaneous cervical cordotomy is an invasive procedure to treat severe, opioid-resistant cancer pain. It is usually proposed for patients with a limited life expectancy.
Jan J Meeuse +3 more
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Endoscopic laser cordotomy for bilateral recurrent paralysis – comments on a clinical case [PDF]
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2018 Introduction. Bilateral recurrent paralysis treatment has changed in the last decades as various procedures have been developed in order to superiorly preserve the functions of the larynx. For life-threatening situations tracheotomy remains the treatment
Mihail TUȘALIU +7 more
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Noninvasive ventilation and laser-assisted unilateral posterior cordotomy as novel multidisciplinary approaches for Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease 4B vocal cord paralysis: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) is one of the most common inherited neuropathies. The disease is generally characterized by sensory loss most prominent in distal extremities, muscle weakness, and muscle wasting.
Seyed Ahmad Tabatabaii +5 more
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Spinal signalling of C-fiber mediated pleasant touch in humans [PDF]
eLife, 2019 C-tactile afferents form a distinct channel that encodes pleasant tactile stimulation. Prevailing views indicate they project, as with other unmyelinated afferents, in lamina I-spinothalamic pathways.
Andrew G Marshall +4 more
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HUMAN SPINAL CORD IMPEDANCE: ITS APPLICATION IN NEUROSURGICAL STEREOTAXIC CORDOTOMY [PDF]
, 1970 Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72600/1/j.1749-6632.1970.tb17740.x ...
James A. Taren, Ross Davis
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Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023 Objective To evaluate the outcome of surgical treatment of tethered cord syndrome (TCS) in children with fatty filum or lipoma of filum at different ages and to explore the natural course and therapeutic strategy of this type of TCS.
XU Chen +5 more
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Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023 Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is an effective method for the treatment of lower limb spasm, especially the advancement of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring technology, which can make surgery more and more minimally invasive and accurate ...
PU Ke +4 more
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Cervical Cordotomy in Terminal Cancer: Pain Relieving in Oncological Treatment
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2021 Cordotomy consists in the discontinuation of the lateral spinothalamic tract (LST) in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, which aims to reduce the transference of nociceptive information in the dorsal horn of the gray matter of the spinal cord
Maria Clara Cardoso Seba +5 more
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Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023 Objective To analyze clinical efficacy and influencing factors of selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) for treatment of spastic cerebral palsy (SCP) in children.
WEI Min +5 more
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History of Spinal Cord “Pain” Pathways Including the Pathways Not Taken
Frontiers in Pain Research, 2022 Traditional medical neuroanatomy/neurobiology textbooks teach that pain is generated by several ascending pathways that course in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, including the spinothalamic, spinoreticular and spinoparabrachial tracts. The
Allan Basbaum
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