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pain medicine

Internal medicine A new subspecialty of neurology dedicated to the relief and/or control of pain Pharmacology A popular term for an analgesic

Surgical management of pain

• Section of peripheral nerve pathway Neurectomy, splanchnicectomy, dorsal rhizotomy

• Section of CNS pathway Anterolateral cordotomy, trigeminal tractotomy, dorsal root entry zone lesioning

• Procedures to alter affective response to pain Cingulotomy, obotomy, thalamotomy

• Section of efferent arc of vasomotor reflex Sympathectomy

• Suppression by nonablative techniques Stimulation of peripheral nerve, spinal deep brain, intraspinal drug infusion

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