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Factors Associated with Cancer-Related Pain Requiring High-Dose Opioid Use in Palliative Cancer Patients

open access: yesPalliative Medicine Reports, 2021
Background: There are no universal tools to predict the necessity of high-dose opioid use for cancer-related pain. Early recognition and interventions for intractable cancer pain could minimize the distress of palliative patients. Objective: We sought to
Hidetoshi Sumimoto   +9 more
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Successful Management of Refractory Headache and Facial Pain due to Cavernous Sinus Meningioma with Sphenopalatine Ganglion Radiofrequency

open access: yesCase Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2014
Headaches and facial pain can be extremely difficult to manage for the patient and the clinician. In the medical literature, it has been suggested that the autonomic reflex plays an important role in the pathophysiology of facial neuralgia.
Foad Elahi, Kwo Wei David Ho
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"Semicut” skill on the cystic duct in laparoscopic cholecystectomy

open access: yesFrontiers in Surgery, 2023
This study aimed to decrease the incidence of residual stones in the cystic duct and consequently decrease the incidences of intractable pain and the formation of a small gallbladder after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).
Linxun Liu, Zhanxue Zhao, Jinyu Yang
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Surgery for Spine Disease and Intractable Pain

open access: yesBrain 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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OPEN ANTERIOR CORDOTOMY AS A POSSIBLE TECHNIQUE FOR PAIN RELIEF IN CANCER PATIENT: AN EXPERIENCE WITH SEVEN CASES [PDF]

open access: yesActa Medica Iranica, 1996
Seven patients who had intractable pain of the pelvis and lower extremities were scheduled for cordotomy of the spinothalamic tracts after preliminary investigations.
Sheikhrezai   +4 more
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Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block with Botulinum Toxin Type A for Intractable Neuropathic Pain

open access: yesToxins, 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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A 92-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain Following Intractable Vomiting; a Photo Quiz

open access: yesArchives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019
A 92-year-old man with hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), peptic ulcer disease and dementia presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of abdominal pain in the left upper quadrant, distention, dry cough and ...
Chin-Chu Wu, Aming Chor-Ming Lin
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The Reset Neurotomy within a Nonidentifiable Zone of Injury after Trauma

open access: yesPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2023
Summary:. Recent reconstructive approaches to peripheral nerve surgery have been directed toward active approaches; one such approach is nerve grafting the injured nerve segment.
Lauren L. Schnack, DPM, MS, AACFAS, FACPM   +3 more
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Intravenous Lidocaine for Refractory Chronic Orofacial Pain : Two case reports and a literature review

open access: yesSultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2008
This report presents the results of treatment of two adults, at the Pain Center of Montreal General Hospital, Canada, with intravenous lidocaine for intractable orofacial pain.
Abdulaziz Almahrezi   +4 more
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Ureteral stent insertion in pregnants with intractable flank pain: A clinical experience

open access: yesSouthern Clinics of Istanbul Eurasia, 2019
INTRODUCTION[|]To evaluate the efficacy of JJ stent placement in pregnants with intractable flank pain [¤]METHODS[|]Pregnants with flank pain who referred to our clinic between January 2011 and March 2016 were retrospectively reviewed.
Utku Can   +4 more
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