FUNCTIONAL THALAMIC DEPRESSION IN A CASE OF REVERSIBLE CENTRAL PAIN DUE TO A SPINAL INTRAMEDULLARY CYST - CASE-REPORT

Authors
PAGNI CA CANAVERO S
Citation
Ca. Pagni et S. Canavero, FUNCTIONAL THALAMIC DEPRESSION IN A CASE OF REVERSIBLE CENTRAL PAIN DUE TO A SPINAL INTRAMEDULLARY CYST - CASE-REPORT, Journal of neurosurgery, 83(1), 1995, pp. 163-165
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,Surgery
Journal title
Journal of neurosurgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223085
Volume
83
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
163 - 165
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3085(1995)83:1<163:FTDIAC>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
In this report the authors discuss a case of central pain of spinal co rd origin due to a spinal thoracic intramedullary cyst. Single-photon emission computerized tomography with technetium-99m hexamethylpropyle neamineoxime showed thalamic hypoperfusion contralateral to the affect ed leg. Surgical evacuation resulted in total relief of the pain and n ormalization of the thalamic alteration. The reader can infer from the se findings that functional alterations in thalamic processing may be important in the genesis of central pain.