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Open AccessBicentre, randomized, parallel-arm, sham-controlled trial of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) in the treatment of palliative care patients with refractory cancer pain
Pain is a common symptom in palliative care cancer patients and is often insufficiently relieved. In recent years, transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) of the motor cortex has been shown to be effect...
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Hydrocephalus and Colloid Cysts
Colloid cysts represent approximately 1% of all intracranial neoplasms (Antunes et al. 1980; Batnitsky et al. 1974; Hall and Lundsford 1987; Zulch 1986). The preferential localization of these lesions to the ante...
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Hydrocephalus and Colloid Cysts
Colloid cysts represent approximately 1% of all intracranial neoplasms (Antunes et al. 1980; Batnitsky et al. 1974; Hall and Lundsford 1987; Zulch 1986). The preferential localization of these lesions to the ante...
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Stimulation sous-cutanée dans le traitement des lombalgies réfractaires à prédominance neuropathique
Les lombalgies chroniques touchent environ 25 % de la population générale et leurs coûts directs et indirects en font un problème majeur de santé publique. Les lombalgies chroniques réfractaires se définissent...
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Stimulation du cortex moteur dans le traitement des douleurs neuropathiques
Les douleurs neuropathiques secondaires à une lésion encéphalique — douleurs dites centrales — ou à une lésion du nerf trijumeau — douleurs faciales neuropathiques — sont généralement difficiles à traiter. Les...
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Invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of neuropathic pain
Neurostimulation therapy is often needed for patients with neuropathic pain that is refractory to medical treatment. In this Review, Nguyenet al. compare and contrast the evidence for efficacy of motor cortex sti...
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Hydrocephalus and Colloid Cysts
Colloid cysts represent approximately 1% of all intracranial neoplasms [6, 12, 54, 173]. The preferential localization of these lesions to the anterior part of the third ventricle explains why these lesions ap...
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Toward a Phase III Multicenter Study of Fetal Ventral Mesencephalic Transplants in Patients with Late-Stage Parkinson’s Disease
After more than half a dozen years of extremely careful experimental application of fetal neural transplants in patients with late-stage Parkinson’s disease (PD), the time may now have come to organize the nex...
