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Spinal cord stimulation electrode design: prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing percutaneous and laminectomy electrodes-part I: technical outcomesRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 7713, USA
Neurosurgery 51:381-9; discussion 389-90. 2002..Contemporary electrodes can be placed percutaneously in some cases and require a limited laminectomy in other cases...- Spinal cord stimulation for axial low back pain: a prospective, controlled trial comparing dual with single percutaneous electrodesRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 7881, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:1412-8. 2005..A prospective, controlled, clinical trial comparing single and dual percutaneous electrodes in the treatment of axial low back pain from failed back surgery syndrome... - Prevention of percutaneous electrode migration in spinal cord stimulation by a modification of the standard implantation techniqueViolette M Renard
Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-7713, USA
J Neurosurg Spine 4:300-3. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: With modification of the standard technique for implantation of percutaneous SCS electrodes, no longitudinal migration of electrodes was noted in this series of 99 patients... - Spinal cord stimulation versus reoperation for failed back surgery syndrome: a cost effectiveness and cost utility analysis based on a randomized, controlled trialRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Neurosurgery 61:361-8; discussion 368-9. 2007..We analyzed the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of treating failed back-surgery syndrome using spinal cord stimulation (SCS) versus reoperation... - Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain of spinal origin: a valuable long-term solutionRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:2584-91; discussion 2592. 2002..A literature review was conducted... - Spinal cord stimulation versus repeated lumbosacral spine surgery for chronic pain: a randomized, controlled trialRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 7881, USA
Neurosurgery 56:98-106; discussion 106-7. 2005.... - Surgical management of spinal metastases: analysis of prognostic factors during a 10-year experienceRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 7881, USA
J Neurosurg Spine 2:564-73. 2005..The authors sought to identify such prognostic factors for neurological outcome and life expectancy in patients with spinal metastases... - Spinal cord stimulation electrode design: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing percutaneous with laminectomy electrodes: part II-clinical outcomesRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-7881, USA
Neurosurgery 57:990-6; discussion 990-6. 2005..9 years follow-up. In our small sample, however, the statistical significance of this advantage disappeared at mean 2.9 years follow-up... - Spinal cord stimulation versus re-operation in patients with failed back surgery syndrome: an international multicenter randomized controlled trial (EVIDENCE study)Richard B North
Berman Brain and Spine Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ret, Baltimore, MD, USA
Neuromodulation 14:330-5; discussion 335-6. 2011.... - Neurostimulation for pain of spinal originRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Neurosurg 53:272-8. 2006 - Automated, patient-interactive, spinal cord stimulator adjustment: a randomized controlled trialRichard B North
Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 7713, USA
Neurosurgery 52:572-80; discussion 579-80. 2003..The objective of maximizing coverage should be met while using practitioners' time efficiently... - Dysphagia and neuropathic facial pain treated with motor cortex stimulation: case reportWilliam S Anderson
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Neurosurgery 65:E626; discussion E626. 2009..After failing medical and surgical decompressive treatments, the patient underwent implantation of a motor cortex stimulation (MCS) system... - Automated vs. Manual Spinal Cord Stimulator Adjustment: A Sensitivity Analysis of Lifetime Cost Data From a Randomized Controlled TrialAlexander A Khalessi
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Exeter, UK Stimsoft Inc, 1000 Century Plaza, Suite 313, 10630 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD, USA and Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Neuromodulation 11:182-6. 2008.... - Spinal cord stimulation versus conventional medical management for neuropathic pain: a multicentre randomised controlled trial in patients with failed back surgery syndromeKrishna Kumar
Department of Neurosurgery, Regina General Hospital, 1440 14th Avenue, Regina, Sask, Canada
Pain 132:179-88. 2007..In selected patients with FBSS, SCS provides better pain relief and improves health-related quality of life and functional capacity compared with CMM alone... - Response to: "Spinal cord stimulation: stimulating questions"Richard B North
Pain 135:209-10; author reply 210-11. 2008