Pulsed radiofrequency for metastatic pain treatment

Pain Physician

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 921-922

  Zeldin, Alexander ^a   Ioscovich, Alexander ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LETTER; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NERVE BLOCK; PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; CATHETER ABLATION; INTRACTABLE PAIN; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL ROOT;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64049098578     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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