Palliative interventions for pain in cancer patients

Seminars in Interventional Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 419-429

  Tam, Alda ^a   Ahrar, Kamran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolization; Nerve block; Osteoplasty; Pain control; Palliation; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BONE METASTASIS; BONE REMODELING; BONE TUMOR; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELIAC GANGLION BLOCK; CEMENT LEAK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; GANGLION BLOCK; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RISK; SPLANCHNIC NERVE BLOCKING; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 37149022919     PISSN: 07399529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-992330     Document Type: Review

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