What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
This article propose a complete and didactic description of current means of neuromodulation for treatment of refractory neuropathic pain
Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
Yes
Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
Yes
Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
Yes
If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
Yes
Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
Yes
Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
NA
Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
Yes. The prominence of this article is the completeness of therapeutic indication and the description of the surgical approaches
Other Comments:
The Author is a well recognized Italian expert of neuromodulation and in the article he makes available his experience with depth knowledge. The article is helpfull to approaching the specific subjects of the neuromodulation techniques for treatment of neuropathic pain.
Competing interests: None
Invited by the author to review this article? : Yes
Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?: No
References:
None
Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
I'm interesting in functional neurosurgery for pain, epilepsy and movement disorders
How to cite: Riccardo R .Neuromodulation techniques for tratment of refractory neuropathic pain[Review of the article 'Neuromodulation techniques for treatment of refractory neuropathic pain ' by Lavano A].WebmedCentral 2013;4(7):WMCRW002778
This article propose a complete and didactic description of current means of neuromodulation for treatment of refractory neuropathic pain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NA
Yes. The prominence of this article is the completeness of therapeutic indication and the description of the surgical approaches
The Author is a well recognized Italian expert of neuromodulation and in the article he makes available his experience with depth knowledge. The article is helpfull to approaching the specific subjects of the neuromodulation techniques for treatment of neuropathic pain.
None
Yes
No
None
I'm interesting in functional neurosurgery for pain, epilepsy and movement disorders