...Thais Federici; Nathan Hardcastle; Pavlos Texakalidis; Muhibullah S. Tora; Jeremy Wetzel; Jonathan P. Riley; Nicholas M. Boulis This manuscript introduces the latest generation of a patient-mounted platform designed for segmental injections of therapeutics direct into the spinal cord parenchyma...

... intraoperative ultrasound (US) to optimize the lesions and to minimize the risk of complications. Using intraoperative US after laminotomy allows the surgeon to differentiate between the gray matter of the spinal cord and white matter, showing the correct entry zone, the angle to introduce the RF electrode...

.... Intrathecal baclofen Freidreich’s ataxia Spasms Movement disorders Movement disorder surgery Spinal cord Neuromodulation Clinically, the patient suffered from mutism while nodding was the only form of communication. Additionally, 4-limb ataxia with absent tendon reflexes and paraparesis were...

...Jason J. Lamanna; Lindsey N. Urquia; Carl V. Hurtig; Juanmarco Gutierrez; Cody Anderson; Pete Piferi; Thais Federici; John N. Oshinski; Nicholas M. Boulis Background: Cell-based therapies are a promising treatment option for traumatic, tumorigenic and degenerative diseases of the spinal cord...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2012 Dorsal root entry zone Cancer pain Spinal cord Chronic pain affects up to 75% of patients with advanced cancer [ 1 ]. Cancer pain can result from direct tumor invasion...

...Sumio Uematsu; Vernon Tolo Experience with electrophysiological monitoring during surgery of the spinal vertebrae and spinal cord is reviewed. The cerebral somatosensory evoked potential (CSEP) is used to monitor spinal cord conductivity during mechanical manipulation of the vertebrae, most...

...E. Eidelberg; C. Rick Monkeys, previously trained to discriminate between ‘warm’ and ‘cool’ stimuli to the skin, were used to test whether the interruption of certain pathways in the spinal cord causes permanent deficits in thermoesthesia. Lesions of the spinothalamic, spinocervical and dorsal...

...J. Zlatoš; G. Čierny A method of measuring the cross-section areas of some structures of the human spinal cord is described for the purpose of obtaining the coordinate values by means of simultaneously photographing the transverse section of the spinal cord, together with a microscopic objective...

...James N. Campbell Stimulation of the spinal cord may be very helpful in controlling chronic pain. Traditionally it has been thought that pain control derives from antidromic activation of large-diameter primary afferents in the posterior columns, which inhibits activation of second-order neurons...

...Richard B. North; Tim A. Fischell; Donlin M. Long 31 patients suffering from intractable pain associated with chronic low back syndrome, terminal cancer, and other disorders have been studied after an average 6 months’ treatment by electrical stimulation of the spinal cord applied via electrodes...

...Jorge R. Schvarcz The application of stereotactic techniques to the spinal cord as a logical sequel to percutaneous procedures have produced significant developments by enabling the functional exploration of different cord structures. Radiofrequency lesions were placed either at the spinal...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. DorsaI column stimulation Spinal cord Spasmodic torticollis Proc. 7th Symp. World Soc...

...J. Siegfried; J.-U. Krainick; H. Haas; C. Adorjani; M. Meyer; U. Thoden Spinal cord stimulation seems today a promising method to improve spasticity. The experiences of two different clinics (Zürich and Freiburg i.Br.) are reported with long-term assessment up to 28 months. The objective data...

...Yoichi Katayama; Takamitsu Yamamoto; Kazutaka Kobayashi; Masahiko Kasai; Hideki Oshima; Chikashi Fukaya We analyzed the effects of spinal cord stimulation (SCS), deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the thalamic nucleus ventralis caudalis (VC) and motor cortex stimulation (MCS) in 45 patients with post...

...Yoichi Katayama; Takamitsu Yamamoto; Kazutaka Kobayashi; Masahiko Kasai; Hideki Oshima; Chikashi Fukaya The effects of spinal cord stimulation (SCS), deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the thalamic nucleus ventralis caudalis (VC) and motor cortex stimulation (MCS) were analyzed in 19 patients...

..., Hitchcock described relief of pain throughout the body by stereotactic production of a single lesion in the middle of the spinal cord at the cervico-medullary junction, a procedure named extra-lemniscal myelotomy by Schvarcz several years later. This led me to the observation reported in 1984 that pelvic...

...Giancarlo Barola; K. Singh-Sahni; William E. Staas Jr.; Deborah Shatin; Beth Ketcik; Kathy Allen Forty-eight spinal cord injury victims were implanted with an epidural spinal cord stimulation system to treat spasms that had not satisfactorily responded to medical therapy. All the patients were...

...H.K. Inoue; H. Kohga; M. Hirato; M. Nakamura; C. Ohye Spinal cords of rats were irradiated with a Single fraction of 14–36 Gy (group A) or 55 Gy (group B) and examined by light and electron microscopy. Degeneration and reduced numbers of motor neurons were found even at an early stage in group B...

... sympathetic dystrophy, failed back syndrome/arachnoiditis, pain following spinal cord injury, nerve injury pain and other miscellaneous pain conditions), 105 patients for motor disorders (spasms/spasticity following spinal cord or head injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, spasmodic torticollis...

...M. Yoshida; S. Noguchi; S. Kuga; T. Muteki; K. Kojima; T. Abe; N. Akeda; S. Kuramoto Pre- and postoperative MR findings in the spinal cord of 4 patients who underwent lesioning of the cervical dorsal root entry zone (DREZ-otomy) are report-ed. In 3 patients with root avulsion, MR images revealed...