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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Manag. 2009 Aug;2(3):339–352.

Table 1.

Etiology of pain syndrome (number of patients)

Treatment Causative Lesion Number of
Patients
Treatment Causative Lesion Number of
Patients
MCS Deep brain hematoma 5 rTMS Trigeminal neuralgia 24
Ischemic Stroke 25 Post-stroke pain 24
Arteriovenous malformation 1 Fibromyalgia 8
Avulsion 4 Spinal Cord injury 6
Haemorrhagic stroke 16
Dental surgery 3
Trigeminal pain 22 tDCS Fibromyalgia 11
Thalamic abscess 1 Spinal Cord injury 11
Trauma 8
Herpetic pain 3
Nerve injury 6
No clear cause 2