(PDF) Surgical Management of Pain by Kim J. Burchiel

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Excellent, focused evaluation of the surgical options available to the neurosurgeon. Highly recommended for practicing neurosurgeons interested in the field of pain management…An excellent successor to White and Sweet’s Pain: It’s Mechanisms and Neurosurgical Control…a substantial and much needed addition to the field. –Journal of Neurosurgery…is well organized, with broad coverage not only of surgical approaches to pain management but also of nonsurgical and pharmacologic methods of pain control. … The list of well-known contributors to the book reads like a Who’s Who in the field of pain management. … This excellent book will interest anyone treating pain and pain syndromes, regardless of their specialty and regardless of whether they see patients whose primary symptom is pain or other patients. The material will be of value to those of all levels of expertise, from students to generalists, surgeons, and anesthesiologists and those who specialize in the day-to-day management of difficult, recurrent, and intractable pain. –The New England Journal of Medicine…a modern bible of pain surgery…definitive text written by a comprehensive international group of contributers. …this book should be on the shelf of all pain surgeons. It is essential reading for all neurosurgical trainees and a major reference work for practicing pain surgeons