CT-guided percutaneous selective cordotomy for treatment of intractable pain in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 595-599

  Kanpolat, Y ^a   Savas, A ^a   Ucar, T ^b   Torun, F ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cancer pain; Computerized tomography guidance; Cordotomy; Mesothelioma

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOTOMY; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; PANCOAST TUMOR; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; CORDOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036317135     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-002-0945-2     Document Type: Article

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