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Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) reduces pain as well as improves microcirculatory parameters in ischemic limbs and it has been suggested that SCS may save limbs in patients with inoperable arterial occlusions. No randomized controlled study has been published, however.
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Jivegård, L.E.H., Augustinsson, LE., Holm, J., Risberg, B., Örtenwall, P. (1994). Spinal cord Stimulation (SCS) in patients with inoperable severe lower limb ischemia. A prospective randomized controlled study of tissue loss and limb salvage. In: Horsch, S., Claeys, L. (eds) Spinal Cord Stimulation. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48441-4_20
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