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Percutaneous Cordotomy for Pain
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1966Percutaneous cordotomy is a technically safe and simple method of performing spinothalamic tractotomy. It is ideally suited to the patient with normal lung function who has unilateral pain due to cancer. With some modifications and reservations, it may be recommended for patients with bilateral pain or with pain due to nonmalignant disease and for ...
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Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1973
As a result of this review, it is possible to establish patterns of motor and sensory response, which, if satisfied, will ensure the safety and effectiveness of lesion production for our equipment and technique. The ideal response at 2 Hz should include contractions of the ipsilateral neck, especially the trapezius, at a threshold of 2–3 mA.
R.R. Tasker, L.W. Organ
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As a result of this review, it is possible to establish patterns of motor and sensory response, which, if satisfied, will ensure the safety and effectiveness of lesion production for our equipment and technique. The ideal response at 2 Hz should include contractions of the ipsilateral neck, especially the trapezius, at a threshold of 2–3 mA.
R.R. Tasker, L.W. Organ
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2012
Congenital bilateral vocal fold paralysis (BVFP) is the second most common cause of stridor in neonates. Etiologies of BVFP include neurologic, cardiopulmonary malformations, iatrogenic, traumatic, and idiopathic. One half of children with BVFP will require a tracheostomy for upper airway obstruction.
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Congenital bilateral vocal fold paralysis (BVFP) is the second most common cause of stridor in neonates. Etiologies of BVFP include neurologic, cardiopulmonary malformations, iatrogenic, traumatic, and idiopathic. One half of children with BVFP will require a tracheostomy for upper airway obstruction.
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Intractable pain and cordotomy
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2020I was interested in the national UK data on percutaneous cervical cordotomy for cancer-related pain.1 They affirm it is effective and early referrals should be considered, rather than analgesics which may be suboptimally effective but also have side effects.
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Percutaneous Cervical Cordotomy
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1976Cordotomy should be reserved for patients with intractable pain resistant to conservative treatment that is not of a dysaesthetic type. The high cervical percutaneous technique permits exploitation of the principles of stereotactic surgery, especially physiological localization of the lesion site.
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Percutaneous Cervical Cordotomy
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1974Percutaneous cervical cordotomy provides a nonoperative opportunity to interrupt the lateral spinothalamic pathways in patients with pain who are not good operative risks for an open cordotomy. The technique is relatively simple, but requires some practice. Indications should be the same as for open cordotomy, with critical patient selection.
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1997
Pain syndromes that depend on transmission in ascending tracts in the spinal cord, notably the spinothalamic tract, can be treated by ablative procedures, namely cordotomy and myelotomy. This chapter reviews these well-studied, generally reliable, and effective procedures in light of technological improvements and increasing understanding of the ...
Ronald R. Tasker, Richard North
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Pain syndromes that depend on transmission in ascending tracts in the spinal cord, notably the spinothalamic tract, can be treated by ablative procedures, namely cordotomy and myelotomy. This chapter reviews these well-studied, generally reliable, and effective procedures in light of technological improvements and increasing understanding of the ...
Ronald R. Tasker, Richard North
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2001
Abstract It is logical to assume that targeted destruction of pain pathways will relieve pain. Unfortunately most neuronal pathways have mixed fibres, and destruction of the painfibres involves destruction of useful function such as motor and sensory nerve tissue.
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Abstract It is logical to assume that targeted destruction of pain pathways will relieve pain. Unfortunately most neuronal pathways have mixed fibres, and destruction of the painfibres involves destruction of useful function such as motor and sensory nerve tissue.
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