COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY-GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS CORDOTOMY FOR INTRACTABLE PAIN IN MALIGNANCY

Kanpolat Y., UĞUR H. Ç., Ayten M., ELHAN A. H.

NEUROSURGERY, vol.64, no.3, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 64 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2009
  • Doi Number: 10.1227/01.neu.0000335645.67282.03
  • Journal Name: NEUROSURGERY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Keywords: Cancer pain, Computed tomography-guided cordotomy, Operative technique, CERVICAL CORDOTOMY, SPINAL-CORD, CANCER PAIN, TECHNICAL NOTE, SECTION, RELIEF, APNEA
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Pain, usually a response to tissue damage, is accepted as an unpleasant feeling generating a desire to escape from the causative stimulus. Although, in the early stages of malignant diseases, pain is seen in 5% to 10%. of cases, this rate reaches nearly 90% in the terminal stage, and pain becomes a primary symptom. Cordotomy is one of the treatment choices in pain caused by malignancies localized Unilaterally to the extremities as well as the thorax and the abdomen,