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J D Cole1, L S Illis, E M Sedgwick
1Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton, SO9 4XY (UK).
Abstract:
Two cases are described in which spinal cord stimulation was effective in abolishing previously intractable deafferentation pain for a number of years, but in which late failure occurred for non-technical reasons. A possible explanation for this is advanced; namely that the dorsal column fibres have altered electrical properties due to a form of transganglionic degeneration.
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