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2) Gybels JM, Sweet WH: Percutaneous anterolateral cordotomy.in Gybels JM, Sweet WH eds, Neurosurgical Treatment of Persistent Pain. Karger, Basel 1989, pp173-179

3) Lahuerta J, Bowsher D, Lipton S, Buxton PH: Percutaneous cervical cordotomy: a review of 181 operations on 146 patients with a study on the location of "pain fibers" in the C-2 spinal cord segment of 29 cases. J Neurosurg 80:975-85, 1994

4) Sanders M, Zuurmond W: Safety of unilateral and bilateral percutaneous cervical cordotomy in 80 terminally ill cancer patients. J Clin Oncol 13:1509-12, 1995

5) Gybels JM, Sweet WH: Stereotactic C1 central myelotomy (central cord lesion). in Gybels JM, Sweet WH eds, Neurosurgical Treatment of Persistent Pain. Karger, Basel 1989, pp188-193

6) Hitchcock E: Spinal and pontine tractotomies and nucleotomies. in Lunsford LD eds, Modern Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Martinus Nijhoff, Boston, 1988, pp279-295

7) Al-Chaer ED, Lawand NB, Westlund KN: The dorsal column (DC) is more important for visceral pain than the spinothalamic tract ? Soc Neurosci 21:644, 1995

8) Nauta HJW, Hewitt E, Westlund KN, Willis WD Jr: Surgical intrruption of a midline dorsal column visceral pain pathway. J Neurosurg 86:538-542, 1997

9) Spiller WG, Martin E: The treatment of persistent pain of organic origin in the lower part of the body by division of the anterolateral column of the spinal cord. J Am Med Assoc 58:1489-1490, 1912

10) Mullan S, Harper PV, Hekmatpanah J, Torres H, Dobben G: Percutaneous interruption of spinal-pain tracts by means of a strontium needle. J Neurosurg 20:931-939, 1963

11) Rosomoff HL, Carroll F, Brown J, Sheptak P: Percutaneous radiofrequency cervical cordotomy technique. J Neurosurg 23:639-644, 1965

12) Taira T, Kawamura H, Tanikawa T, Iseki H, Takakura K: Cordotomy needle with a measuring scale. Pain Res 8:45-47,1993

13) 伊関 洋、天野恵市、河村弘庸、谷川達也、川畠弘子、能谷正雄、塩飽哲士、長尾建樹、岩田幸也、平 孝臣、小野由子、小林直紀、黒岩悦二、喜多村孝一: 経皮的コルドトミーのための新しい装置と定位的コルドトミー法 脳神経外科 13:137-142, 1984

14) Lahuerta J, Buxton P, Lipton S, Bowsher D: The location and function of respiratory fibres in the second cervical spinal cord segment: respiratory dysfunction syndrome after cervical cordotomy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr 55:1142-5, 1992

15) Nagaro T, Oka S, Amakawa K, Kimura S, Ochi G, Arai T: Classification of post cordotomy dysesthesia Japanese J Anesthesiol 43:1356-61, 1994

16) Kanpolat Y, Akyar S, Caglar S, Unlu A, Bilgic S: CT-guided percutaneous selective cordotomy. Acta Neurochir 123:92-6, 1993

17) Fenstermaker RA, Sternau LL, Takaoka Y: CT-assisted percutaneous anterior cordotomy: technical note. Surg Neurol 43:147-150, 1995

18) Krol G, Arbit E: Percutaneous lateral cervical cordotomy: target localization with water soluble contrast medium. J Neurosurg 79:390-2, 1993

19) Taira T, Amano K, Kawamura H, Tanikawa T, Kitamura K: Cerebral evoked responses elicited by direct stimulation of the lateral spinothalamic tract in human. Appl Neurophysiol 48:267-270,1985

20) Friehs GM, Schrottner O, Pendl G: Evidence for segregated pain and temperature conduction within the spinothalamic tract. J Neurosurg 83:8-12, 1995

21) Hitchcock ER: Stereotactic cervical myelotomy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr 33:224 230, 1970

22) Schvarcz JR: Spinal cord stereotactic techniques of trigeminal nucleotomy and extraleminiscal myelotomy. Appl Neurophysiol 41:99-112, 1978

23) Schvarcz JR: Stereotactic extralemniscal myelotomy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 39:53-57, 1976

24) Hirshberg RM, Al-Chaer ED, Lawand NB: Is there a pain pathway in the posterior funiculus that signals visceral pain ? Pain 67:291-305, 1996

25) Lamer TJ: Treatment of cancer-related pain: when orally administered medications fail. Mayo Clin Proc 69:473-80, 1994

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