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Dorsal Root Entry Zone Lesioning for Brachial Plexus Avulsion: A Comprehensive Literature Review
- Source :
- Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.). 20(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) lesioning is a neurosurgical procedure that aims to relieve severe neuropathic pain in patients with brachial plexus avulsion by selectively destroying nociceptive neural structures in the posterior cervical spinal cord. Since the introduction of the procedure over 4 decades ago, the DREZ lesioning technique has undergone numerous modifications, with a variety of center- and surgeon-dependent technical differences and patient outcomes. We have reviewed the literature to discuss reported methods of DREZ lesioning and outcomes.
- Subjects :
- Dorsum
medicine.medical_specialty
Neurosurgical Procedures
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Humans
Brachial Plexus
business.industry
Avulsion fracture
medicine.disease
Spinal cord
Brachial plexus avulsion
Neurosurgical Procedure
Surgery
Nociception
medicine.anatomical_structure
Spinal Cord
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Neuropathic pain
Neuralgia
Neurology (clinical)
business
Spinal Nerve Roots
Brachial plexus
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23324260
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e96648dfb13b3f1e5caa1f25c73d3beb