{"title":"Spinal Cord Stimulation for Pain Relief of Unresectable Sacral Chordoma: Case Report","authors":"Khalid H. Kurtom","doi":"10.4172/2325-9701.1000267","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An 83-year-old man with a large sacral chordoma not amenable to surgical resection presented with severe lower back and lower extremity pain refractory to opioid medications. Trial with a temporary external spinal cord stimulator (SCS) elicited a >50% relief of symptoms and a permanent SCS was subsequently placed. The patient continued to report adequate pain relief from the SCS 12 months after placement, despite continued progression of his disease.","PeriodicalId":90240,"journal":{"name":"Journal of spine & neurosurgery","volume":"13 5","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of spine & neurosurgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2325-9701.1000267","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An 83-year-old man with a large sacral chordoma not amenable to surgical resection presented with severe lower back and lower extremity pain refractory to opioid medications. Trial with a temporary external spinal cord stimulator (SCS) elicited a >50% relief of symptoms and a permanent SCS was subsequently placed. The patient continued to report adequate pain relief from the SCS 12 months after placement, despite continued progression of his disease.
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