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Review
. 2014 Oct;25(4):693-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.nec.2014.06.004. Epub 2014 Aug 3.

Motor cortex stimulation for chronic pain

Thomas Ostergard  1 , Charles Munyon  1 , Jonathan P Miller  2
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Review

Motor cortex stimulation for chronic pain

Thomas Ostergard et al. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2014 Oct.

Abstract

Motor cortex stimulation produces significant relief of symptoms in many forms of refractory chronic pain disorders.

Keywords: Anesthesia dolorosa; Central pain; Chronic pain; Motor cortex stimulation; Post-stroke pain; Trigeminal deafferentation pain; Trigeminal neuropathic pain; Trigeminal neuropathy.

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