tractotomy
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BACKGROUND: Current treatment strategies in patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) include trials of medical therapy and…
Forty years after its first reported use, stereotactic mesencephalic tractotomy remains effective in relieving thalamic pain…
Unilateral trigeminal tractotomy was carried out at the level of the obex, just rostral to the subnucleus caudalis, in five young…
✓ A stereotaxic method of radiocoagulation of the spinothalamic tract at the pontine level is described. A system of coordinates…
Unilateral dorsomedial midbrain tractotomy was employed to relieve extensive pain from the head, neck, and oropharynx. Pains…
While retrograde cell changes in the central nervous system are well known, degeneration of that portion of the axon which lies…
MEDULLARY tractotomy has already become an established procedure as a method of severing the afferent pain pathways—the…