Genitofemoral neuralgia : adding to the burden of chronic vulvar pain [PDF]
, 2015 The vulva is a particularly common locus of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics that occurs in women of any age, though most women with neuropathic type chronic vulvar pain will remain undiagnosed even following multiple physician visits. Here,
De Muynck, Martine +2 more
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Occipital nerve stimulation for headache disorders [PDF]
, 2010 Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) was originally described in the treatment of occipital neuralgia. However, the spectrum of possible indications has expanded in recent years to include primary headache disorders, such as migraine and cluster headaches ...
Bartsch, Thorsten, Paemeleire, Koen
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Repetitive single subarachnoid injections for trial administration of the intrathecal morphine pump in patients with intractable non-cancer pain -A case report- [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2011 Since the early 1980s, the implantable intrathecal drug pump (ITDP) has been used increasingly to manage chronic pain. Prior to making a decision to implant an ITDP, trial administration of the intrathecal (IT) drug should be performed to estimate the ...
Jae-Woo Lee +5 more
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Intravenous ketamine for subacute treatment of refractory chronic migraine: a case series. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Refractory migraine is a challenging condition with great impact on health related quality of life. Intravenous (IV) ketamine has been previously used to treat various refractory pain conditions.
Ashina, Sait +3 more
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Anterior cingulotomy for intractable pain
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2016 Conservative therapy is often the first-line treatment for many symptoms of various disease processes, including pain. Nevertheless, if pharmacological or medical management fails for those patients with severe and chronic pain, a surgical strategy may ...
Nitin Agarwal, MD +4 more
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Ultrasonic distance detection for a closed-loop spinal cord stimulation system [PDF]
, 1997 When stimulating the spinal cord at a constant strength, the current density in the spinal cord and thus the effects on chronic, intractable pain and vascular insufficiency will change with body position, due to the varying separation of the spinal cord ...
Bergveld, P. +3 more
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Pulsed radiofrequency on dorsal root ganglia for chronic pain
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2013 Objective: Evaluate clinical outcome of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment in neuropathic pain of patients with radiculopathy regarding improvement of pain and degree of patients’ satisfaction.
Luis Fernando Moura da Silva Junior +5 more
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Journal of International Medical Research, 2021 Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been used to treat sustained pain that is intractable despite various types of treatment. However, conventional tonic waveform SCS has not shown promising outcomes for spinal cord injury (SCI) or postamputation pain. The
Kuen Su Lee +4 more
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Assessment of the effectiveness of head only and back-of-the-head electrical stunning of chickens [PDF]
, 2005 The study assesses the effectiveness of reversible head-only and back-of-the-head electrical stunning of chickens using 130–950 mA per bird at 50 Hz ...
A. Björklund +7 more
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Multiple myeloma with intractable lumbar pain and diagnostic challenge with MRI: A case report
Radiology Case Reports, 2021 We present a 63-year-old male patient with intractable bone pain and rapidly progressive osteoporosis, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma (MM) by CT despite normal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings.
Min Jae Myung, MD +4 more
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