Subject Index / Author Index.
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PMID: 27242055 [PubMed] (Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery)
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - June 2, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Title Page / Contents / Preface.
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PMID: 27242056 [PubMed] (Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery)
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - June 2, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Preface.
Authors: Slavin KV
PMID: 26647465 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery)
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - December 11, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Peripheral nerve stimulation in chronic cluster headache.
Authors: Magis D, Schoenen J
Abstract
Cluster headache is well known as one of the most painful primary neurovascular headache. Since 1% of chronic cluster headache patients become refractory to all existing pharmacological treatments, various invasive and sometimes mutilating procedures have been tempted in the last decades. Recently, neurostimulation methods have raised new hope for drug-resistant chronic cluster headache patients. The main focus of this chapter is on stimulation of the great occipital nerve, which has been the best evaluated peripheral nerve stimulation technique in drug-resistant chron...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Peripheral nerve stimulation for fibromyalgia.
Authors: Plazier M, Vanneste S, Dekelver I, Thimineur M, De Ridder D
Abstract
Fibromyalgia is a condition marked by widespread chronic pain, accompanied by a variety of other symptoms, including sleep and fatigue disorders, headaches, disorders of the autonomic nervous system, as well as cognitive and psychiatric symptoms. It occurs predominantly in women and is often associated with other systemic or autoimmune diseases. Despite its serious socio economical burden, the treatment options remain poor. In this chapter, the authors discuss the possibilities of using greater occipital nerve stimulation as a tr...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
'Hybrid neurostimulator': simultaneous use of spinal cord and peripheral nerve field stimulation to treat low back and leg pain.
Authors: Lipov EG
Abstract
Treatment of chronic back and leg pain in patients with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) remains problematic as none of the currently available approaches are universally successful in achieving lasting pain control. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is very effective for controlling radicular pain but rarely provides adequate control of pain in the lower back. Recently, a technique of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) was introduced to control pain in a group of patients for whom back pain dominated the clinical picture. Because PNS does not control neuropathic pain due to lumbo...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Stimulation of the peripheral nervous system for the painful extremity.
Authors: McRoberts WP, Cairns KD, Deer T
Abstract
Peripheral nerve stimulation and, recently, peripheral nerve field stimulation are excellent options for the control of extremity pain in instances where conventional methods have failed and surgical treatment is ruled inappropriate. New techniques, ultrasound guidance, smaller generators, and task-specific neuromodulatory hardware and leads result in increasingly safe, stable and efficacious treatment of pain in the extremities. Peripheral nerve stimulation has shown to be an increasingly viable option for many painful conditions with neuropathic and possi...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Sphenopalatine ganglion interventions: technical aspects and application.
Authors: Oluigbo CO, Makonnen G, Narouze S, Rezai AR
Abstract
Recent research has highlighted the important role of the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) in cerebrovascular autonomic physiology and in the pathophysiology of cluster and migraine headaches as well as conditions of stroke and cerebral vasospasm. The relatively accessible location of the SPG within the pterygopalatine fossa and the development of options for minimally invasive approaches to the SPG make it an attractive target for neuromodulation approaches. The obvious advantage of SPG stimulation compared to ablative procedures on the SPG such a...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Spinal nerve root stimulation.
Authors: Kellner CP, Kellner MA, Winfree CJ
Abstract
Spinal nerve root stimulation (SNRS) is a neuromodulation technique that is used to treat chronic pain. This modality places stimulator electrode array(s) along the spinal nerve roots, creating stimulation paresthesias within the distribution of the target nerve root(s), thereby treating pain in that same distribution. There are several different forms of spinal nerve root stimulation, depending upon the exact electrode positioning along the nerve roots. SNRS combines the minimally invasive nature, central location, and ease of placement of spinal cord s...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Technical aspects of peripheral nerve stimulation: hardware and complications.
Authors: Slavin KV
Abstract
Although commonly used in clinical practice, peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) for treatment of chronic pain is performed mainly with devices developed and marketed for spinal cord stimulation applications. This may be one of the reasons why PNS approach is marked by a very high complication rate, as the anatomy of peripheral nerves and the surrounding soft tissues is quite different from epidural spinal space for which the current devices are designed. The chapter reviews integral components of PNS systems and accessories. It also lists variety of complications observed with P...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Peripheral nerve stimulation: definition.
Authors: Abejón D, Pérez-Cajaraville J
Abstract
Recently, there has been a tremendous evolution in the field of neurostimulation, both from the technological point of view and from development of the new and different indications. In some areas, such as peripheral nerve stimulation, there has been a boom in recent years due to the variations in the surgical technique and the improved results documented by in multiple published papers. All this makes imperative the need to classify and define the different types of stimulation that are used today. The confusion arises when attempting to describe periphera...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
The future of peripheral nerve stimulation.
Authors: Stanton-Hicks M, Panourias IG, Sakas DE, Slavin KV
Abstract
The field of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) is now experiencing a phase of rapid growth in number of patients, number of implanters, number of indications, and procedure types. This, however, appears to be only a beginning of major developments that could revolutionize the field of PNS. It is expected that the progress in PNS will continue simultaneously in several directions as new indications, new stimulation targets and new device designs evolve in the foreseeable future. Responding to a major need for safe and effective pain treat...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Historical background.
Authors: Park CK, Kim DG
Abstract
Surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, steroid therapy and radiosurgery have been the mainstream of management of brain metastasis and the trend has been continuously changed along with the advancement of cancer management, development of new technology and changing in perception of quality of life. A glance at the historical perspective on brain metastasis management clearly shows two major shifts which have been made in last two decades. One is the changes of leading treatment modalities from whole-brain radiation therapy to multimodal management focusing on radiosurg...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Epidemiology of central nervous system metastases.
Authors: Alexandru D, Bota DA, Linskey ME
Abstract
Brain metastases are overwhelmingly the most common type of brain tumor, out numbering primary brain tumors in incidence by more than four-to-one. They are associated with poor prognosis both from a length-of-life as well as a quality-of-life standpoint. Once the brain metastasis is detected, without treatment, most patients die within months, either from widespread systemic disease, or due to the brain metastasis itself. The complications of brain metastases are also devastating. Patients can suffer from seizures, weakness or paralysis, language and commu...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
Histopathology of brain metastases after radiosurgery.
Authors: Szeifert GT, Kondziolka D, Levivier M, Lunsford LD
Abstract
Histopathological investigations revealed acute-, subacute-, and chronic-type tissue responses, accompanied by inflammatory cell reaction in radiosurgery treated cerebral metastases originating from different primary cancers. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated that the preponderance of CD68-positive macrophages and CD3-positive T lymphocytes in the inflammatory infiltration developed in better controlled metastases ( > 5 months). In contrast, it was sparse or absent in poorly controlled neoplasms ( < 5 months) after radiosurgery. Thi...
Source: Progress in Neurological Surgery - November 20, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Prog Neurol Surg Source Type: research
