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Spontaneous lead breakage in implanted spinal cord stimulation systems.

Tae Hun Kim1, Pyung Bok Lee, Hye Min Son

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

The Korean Journal of Pain
|June 17, 2010
PubMed
Summary

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) hardware can fail, particularly lead breakage. Revision surgery for spinal cord stimulator lead failure can restore pain relief for chronic pain patients.

Keywords:
complicationlead breakagespinal cord stimulation

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