Neurosurgical pain management /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Elsevier, Saunders,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Fundamental considerations in pain treatment
- Approach to the patient with pain
- The neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic basis of pain
- The pathophysiology of neuropathic pain
- Psychological considerations in spine surgery
- Pharmacologic therapies for pain
- Pain syndromes of neurosurgical importance
- Myofascial pain syndromes
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Nontrigeminal craniofacial pain syndromes
- Treatment of occipital neuralgia and related posterior headache syndromes
- Trigeminal, geniculate, and glossopharyngeal
- Central and deafferentation pain syndromes
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Neurosurgical pain therapies
- Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of chronic pain
- Peripheral nerve stimulation
- Neuraxial analgesic administration
- Intracranial stimulation therapies : deep-brain stimulation
- Motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of neuropathic pain syndromes
- Cordotomy
- Spinal ablative therapies : myelotomy
- Dorsal root entry zone lesions
- Brainstem ablative procedures
- Intracranial ablative procedures
- Peripheral ablative techniques
- Trigeminal neuralgia - peripheral neurectomy
- Trigeminal neuralgia - percutaneous trigeminal nerve compression
- Trigeminal neuralgia - percutaneous glycerol rhizotomy
- Trigeminal neuralgia - percutaneous radiofrequency rhizotomy
- Posterior fossa procedures for cranial neuralgias
- Radiosurgery for pain management
- Miscellaneous topics
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation in pain management
- The multidisciplinary pain treatment program
- Disability and impairment in the patient with pain
- Outcome assessment
- Building (and survivng) a neurosurgical pain practice