[Has the classic chordotomy a future? (author's transl)].
Evaluating our results of anterior-lateral chordotomy in 88 patients suffering from intractable pain, we can state that this is a useful surgical procedure. Today however it has to be replaced by the so-called percutaneous cervical chordotomy.
D006801:Humans; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011379:Prognosis; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000601:surgery*; D013133:Spinothalamic Tracts / Q000601:surgery
Hat die offene antero-laterale Chordotomie zur Schmerzausschaltung heute noch ihre Bedeutung?