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Sphenopalatine ganglion electrical nerve stimulation implant for intractable facial pain.
Persistent idiopathic facial pain can be extremely difficult and significantly challenging to manage for the patient and the clinician. Pharmacological treatment of these painful conditions is not always successful. It has been suggested that the autonomic reflex plays an important role in the pathophysiology of headaches and facial neuralgia. The key structure in the expression of cranial auto...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.119.026029