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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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Pulsed radiofrequency on dorsal root ganglia for chronic pain
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2013 Objective: Evaluate clinical outcome of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment in neuropathic pain of patients with radiculopathy regarding improvement of pain and degree of patients’ satisfaction.
Luis Fernando Moura da Silva Junior +5 more
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Journal of International Medical Research, 2021 Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been used to treat sustained pain that is intractable despite various types of treatment. However, conventional tonic waveform SCS has not shown promising outcomes for spinal cord injury (SCI) or postamputation pain. The
Kuen Su Lee +4 more
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Multiple myeloma with intractable lumbar pain and diagnostic challenge with MRI: A case report
Radiology Case Reports, 2021 We present a 63-year-old male patient with intractable bone pain and rapidly progressive osteoporosis, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma (MM) by CT despite normal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings.
Min Jae Myung, MD +4 more
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Palliative 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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Roux-en-Y longitudinal Pancreatico Jejunostomy for Pancreatic Calculi in Children
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2011 Background: Pancreatic calculi is distinctly uncommon in children and usually present wit recurrent abdominal pain. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of longitudinal pancreatico-jejunostomy in relieving intractable abdominal pain in children with ...
AKM Zahid Hossain +2 more
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Ketamine Use for Successful Resolution of Post-ERCP Acute Pancreatitis Abdominal Pain
Case Reports in Anesthesiology, 2017 We report a case in which a patient with intractable pain secondary to post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) acute pancreatitis is successfully treated with a subanesthetic ketamine infusion.
Suneel M. Agerwala +2 more
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Cervical Cordotomy in Terminal Cancer: Pain Relieving in Oncological Treatment
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2021 Cordotomy consists in the discontinuation of the lateral spinothalamic tract (LST) in the anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord, which aims to reduce the transference of nociceptive information in the dorsal horn of the gray matter of the spinal cord
Maria Clara Cardoso Seba +5 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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Case 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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