Neurosurgical management of neuropathic pain.
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).
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Department of Neurosurgery, University of Lyon, France. marc.sindou@chu-lyon.fr
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