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Plasmatic beta-endorphin levels and thalamic surgery for pain
Neurological Research
|March 1, 1985
Abstract:
Plasma beta-endorphin levels were found to be significantly lower in patients suffering from chronic pain of malignant etiology than in a control group. After a bilateral stereotactic cryothalamotomy in Centrum Medianum and Parafascicularis nuclei, a good clinical result and a significant increase in plasma beta-endorphin levels were obtained.