Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, April 12th, 2010
"We trialed spinal cord stimulation in 35 patients, each of whom was shown by retrograde differential epidural block to have either visceral pain (n = 32) or mixed visceral and central pain (n = 3). SCS trials lasted 4 to 14 days (median 9 days). SCS lead tips were mostly positioned at T5 (n = 11) or T6 (n = 10). Thirty patients (86%) reported at least 50% pain relief upon completion of the trial. Among these, pretrial...
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