Treatment of refractory ischemic pain from chemotherapy-induced Raynaud's syndrome with spinal cord stimulation

Pain Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-146

  Ting, Joseph C ^a   Fukshansky, Mikhail ^a   Burton, Allen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ischemic limb pain; Neurostimulation; Raynaud's syndrome; Spinal cord stimulation; Sympathectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CISPLATIN; CLONIDINE; GEMCITABINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NITRATE; TEMSIROLIMUS;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FINGER AMPUTATION; FLUOROSCOPY; FOOT PAIN; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERTENSION; IMPLANT; LEG PAIN; LIMB PAIN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; METAL IMPLANTATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PNEUMONIA; PULSE GENERATOR; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SMOKING; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; SYMPATHECTOMY; TOE GANGRENE;

DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 34250199309     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2007.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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