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ArticleBiomedicines2021

Centromedian-Parafascicular and Somatosensory Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain: A Contemporary Series of 40 Patients.

Mahmoud Abdallat, Assel Saryyeva, Christian Blahak, Marc E Wolf, Ralf Weigel, Thomas J Loher, Joachim Runge, Hans E Heissler, Thomas M Kinfe, Joachim K Krauss

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Article in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Neuromodulation of the central nervous system for facial pain.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  17. Somatosensory evoked potentials recorded from DBS electrodes: the origin of subcortical N18.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2024
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  19. When the central integrator disintegrates: A review of the role of the thalamus in cognition and dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Mahmoud AbdallatDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Assel SaryyevaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Christian BlahakDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Mannheim, 68167 Mannheim, Germany.
Marc E WolfDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Mannheim, 68167 Mannheim, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7683-6918
Ralf WeigelDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Thomas J LoherNeurocenter Berne, 3013 Berne, Switzerland.
Joachim RungeDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Hans E HeisslerDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Thomas M KinfeDepartment of Neurosurgery, Division of Functional Neurosurgery and Stereotaxy, Friedrich-Alexander University, 91054 Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4888-543X
Joachim K KraussDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0675-9064
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEHeidelberg University · DEBerner Augenklinik am Lindenhofspital · CHFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEUniversity of Jordan · JO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

centromedian–parafascicular complexdeep brain stimulationfunctional neurosurgerypainventroposterolateral thalamus

Identifiers

PMID34202202
PMCPMC8301341
OpenAlexW3177129858

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Registered trials

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