Abstract

BENEDETTI, Esther M. Thoracic spinal cord stimulation is useful for pain treatment after incomplete cervical spinal cord injury. Rev. colomb. anestesiol. [online]. 2013, vol.41, n.2, pp.146-149. ISSN 0120-3347.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rca.2013.02.003.

Central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury continues to represent a therapeutic challenge, perhaps due to the lack of understanding and consensus as to the neuropat-hophysiological symptomatic etiology. Spinal cord stimulation is a sophisticated minimally invasive alternative for the treatment of peripheral neuropathic pain; however, in this case, we present a patient in whom thoracic spinal cord stimulation was the only successful approach to the treatment of lower extremity neuropathic pain after an incomplete cervical spinal cord injury.

Keywords : Spinal Cord; Ependymoma; Electromyography; Neuralgia; Pain.

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