Neuromodulation for Intractable Pain [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2020 Over 7% of the Western population suffer from intractable pain and despite pharmacotherapy, many patients’ pain is refractory [...]
Alexander L. Green, Tipu Z. Aziz
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Neurostimulation for Intractable Chronic Pain [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2019 The field of neuromodulation has seen unprecedented growth over the course of the last decade with novel waveforms, hardware advancements, and novel chronic pain indications.
Timothy R. Deer +3 more
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EUS-Guided Versus Percutaneous Celiac Neurolysis for the Management of Intractable Pain Due to Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. [PDF]
J Clin Med, 2020 Although endoscopic ultrasound-guided celiac neurolysis (EUS-CN) and percutaneous celiac neurolysis (PCN) are utilized to manage intractable pain in pancreatic cancer patients, no direct comparison has been made between the two methods.
Yoon WJ +7 more
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Evaluation of intrathecal drug delivery system for intractable pain in advanced malignancies: A prospective cohort study. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2017 Pain is prevalent in advanced malignancies; however, some patients cannot get adequate pain relief by conservative routes of analgesic administration or experience serious side effects related to high dose of opioids.
Zheng S, He L, Yang X, Li X, Yang Z.
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Anterior cingulotomy for intractable pain
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2016 Conservative therapy is often the first-line treatment for many symptoms of various disease processes, including pain. Nevertheless, if pharmacological or medical management fails for those patients with severe and chronic pain, a surgical strategy may ...
Nitin Agarwal, MD +4 more
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Surgery for Spine Disease and Intractable Pain [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2020 Painful conditions, particularly due to head pain, spinal disease, and neuropathic pain, are highly prevalent in modern society, resulting in a significant impact on the individual due to the disability of the condition and the direct cost of associated ...
Warren Boling
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Intravenous Lidocaine: Old-School Drug, New Purpose-Reduction of Intractable Pain in Patients with Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy. [PDF]
Pain Res Manag, 2017 Background. Treatment of intractable pain due to chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a challenge. Intravenous (iv) lidocaine has shown to be a treatment option for neuropathic pain of different etiologies. Methods.
van den Heuvel SAS +6 more
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Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block with Botulinum Toxin Type A for Intractable Neuropathic Pain
Toxins, 2016 Neuropathic pain includes postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN), and trigeminal neuralgia, and so on. Although various drugs have been tried to treat neuropathic pain, the effectiveness of the drugs sometimes may be limited for ...
Young Eun Moon +4 more
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Neurosurgical Focus, 2013 The problem of surgical pain management remains one of the most daunting in our specialty. Traditionally, we divide the surgical approaches into the more historic destructive procedures (“ablative”) and the more contemporary modulatory ones (stimulation or intrathecal agents).
A. Viswanathan, K. Burchiel
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Intractable pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome successfully treated with percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis: A case report [PDF]
SAGE Open Medical Case ReportsThoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is characterized by intractable cervicobrachial pain caused by strangulation of the brachial plexus and subclavian artery by structures of the superior thoracic outlet.
Yusuke Ishida +7 more
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