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Central Stereotactic Interventions for Intractable Pain

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Brain Hypoxia

Part of the book series: Advances in Neurosurgery ((NEURO,volume 3))

Abstract

Stereotactic procedures were first performed by KIRSCHNER (15). In his original publication the term “gezielte Operationen” was already-used. KIRSCHNER’s apparatus and the method of denaturation of the trigeminal ganglion had already fulfilled all criteria of operations later performed under the term “stereotactic operations”. Modern stereotactic procedures against pain started with SPIEGEL and WYCIS, whose first stereotactic papers were concerned with interventions in the mesencephalon and the thalamus against pain (33). TALAIRACH and co-workers (13) first correlated stereotactic lesions in chronic pain patients with the clinical result. They were followed-up by HASSLER and RIECHERT (11). First long-term results were then reported by HAS-SLER and RIECHERT (12), MARK et al. (19, 20) and SPIEGEL and WYCIS (33).

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Dieckmann, G. (1975). Central Stereotactic Interventions for Intractable Pain. In: Penzholz, H., Brock, M., Hamer, J. (eds) Brain Hypoxia. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66239-3_32

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