1. Characteristic cerebral structural changes identified using voxel-based morphometry in patients with post-surgical chronic myelopathic pain
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Osahiko Tsuji, Morio Matsumoto, Tsunehiko Konomi, Keigo Hikishima, Yosuke Horiuchi, Yuji Komaki, Masaya Nakamura, Kota Watanabe, Keisuke Horiuchi, Narihito Nagoshi, and Kanehiro Fujiyoshi
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Adult ,Male ,030506 rehabilitation ,Post surgical ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Neuroimaging ,computer.software_genre ,Gyrus Cinguli ,Neurosurgical Procedures ,Spinal Cord Diseases ,law.invention ,Intramedullary rod ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Voxel ,law ,medicine ,Numeric Rating Scale ,Humans ,In patient ,Gray Matter ,Aged ,Pain, Postoperative ,Motor area ,business.industry ,Motor Cortex ,Chronic pain ,General Medicine ,Voxel-based morphometry ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Neurology ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Radiology ,Chronic Pain ,0305 other medical science ,business ,computer ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Cross-sectional study. Patients who undergo intramedullary spinal surgery occasionally experience post-surgical chronic pain; however, the underlying mechanisms are not yet completely understood. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the cerebral structural changes in patients with post-surgical chronic myelopathic pain using voxel-based morphometry. Single university hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Forty-nine patients who had undergone intramedullary spinal surgery between January 2002 and April 2014 participated in this study. Participants were classified into two groups based on their post-surgical chronic pain intensity: control (numeric rating scale score of
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- 2019