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Neurosurgical Management of Neuropathic Pain
M. Sindou, Patrick Mertens
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Abstract
Neuropathic pain is a very difficult problem with which the neurosurgeon frequently must deal. The neurosurgical methods to be considered are: (1) modulative, by using neurostimulation or implanted drug delivery systems, and (2) ablative, by making selective therapeutic lesions in well-defined and identified targets proven to sustain pain mechanisms (especially DREZotomy).