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Peruvian Journal of Neurosurgery

Cervical Drezotomy to manage intractable pain in avulsion injuries of the brachial plexus

Camilo Contreras C.MD
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ABSTRACT

 

Patients affected with chronic pain due to lesions by avulsion of the brachial plexus are treated with many different surgical procedures of brachial plexus and long term schemes of pain therapy remaining with high scores in VAS. DREZotomy is an important alternative to relief persistent pain related to the topography of the deafferentation. We report the results of the first cases operated in our institution by this therapy mode.

     Key words: Neuropathic pain, brachial plexus avulsion, dorsal root entry