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In cases of chronic pain involving rather few metamers or roots with a. minor functional relevance, posterior rhizotomy has become a widely performed operation. However, its inevitable consequences, such as complete anesthesia, marked hypotonia and, sometimes, its uneffectiveness on relieving patient’s suffering (anesthesia dolorosa), engendered the research of selective techniques aiming at a good analgesia without disadvantages due to the suppression of the other kinds of sensibility (epicritic tactile and positional senses) (1, 2, 10, 13, 14).
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Colombo, F., Alexandre, A., Curri, D., Benedetti, A. (1980). Posterior Selective Spinal Thermorhizotomy for Control of Intractable Pain Syndroms. In: Grote, W., Brock, M., Clar, HE., Klinger, M., Nau, HE. (eds) Surgery of Cervical Myelopathy. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67605-5_52
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