Stereotaxic Thalamotomy for the Relief of Intractable Pain
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The relief of intractable pain by surgery.
In general the treatment of any painful condition is the treatment of its cause. But sometimes this is not possible, either because the underlying pathological process cannot be influenced favourably, or because its nature is not known while the pain itself cannot be relieved by medical treatment. Examples of the first subgroup are seen when nerve trunks are involved by malignant disease, by po...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0040-8727,1349-3329
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.85.286