Surgical/Radiological interventions for cancer pain

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Harsh, Viraat ^a   Viswanathan, Ashwin ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablative procedure; Cancer pain; CT guided cordotomy; DREZ lesioning; Myelotomy; Pain

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CINGULOTOMY; CORDOTOMY; DORSAL ROOT ENTRY ZONE LESIONING; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANALGESIA; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPINAL ROOT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ANALGESIA; CORDOTOMY; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84912024849     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-013-0331-1     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Care Guide: Cancer Pain. In: Healthways Inc, editor.: Science and Medical Integrity; 2010.
2. Yakovlev AE, Ellias Y. Spinal cord stimulation as a treatment option for intractable neuropathic cancer pain. Clin Med Res. 2008;6(3-4):103-6. doi:10.3121/cmr.2008.813.
3. Lordon SP. Interventional approach to cancer pain. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2002;6(3):202-6. Healthcommunications.com. Cancer pain: overview, incidence, and prevalence. http://www.healthcommunities.com/cancer-pain/cancer-pain-overview.shtml. Accessed 11 2012.
4. Spiller WG, Martin E. The treatment of persistent pain of organicorigin in the lower part of the body by division of the anterolateral column of the spinal cord. JAMA. 1912;20:1489-90. doi:10.1001/jama.1912.04260050165001.
5. Gadgil N, Viswanathan A. DREZotomy in the treatment of cancer pain: A review. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2012;90(6):356-60. doi:10.1159/000341072. Recent review that examines all published studies on DREZotomy as it applies for cancer pain, describingpatient selection and outcomes
6. Kanpolat Y, Ugur HC, Ayten M, Elhan AH. Computed tomography-guided percutaneous cordotomy for intractable pain in malignancy. Neurosurgery. 2009;64(3 SUPPL):187-93. doi:10.1227/01.NEU.0000335645.67282.03. Kanpolat is a master practitioner of cordotomy, and this is the largest landmark series applying this intervention in cancer pain.
7. Raslan AM. Percutaneous computed tomography-guided radiofrequency ablation of upper spinal cord pain pathways for cancer-related pain. Neurosurgery. 2008;62(3 SUPPL 1):226-33. doi:10.1227/01.neu.0000317397.16089.f5. discussion 33-4.
8. Sindou M, Fischer G, Goutelle A, Mansuy L. Selective surgery of posterior nerve roots. First results of surgery for pain. Neurochirurgie. 1974;20(5):391-408.
9. Sindou MP, Blondet E, Emery E, Mertens P. Microsurgical lesioning in the dorsal root entry zone for pain due to brachial plexus avulsion: A prospective series of 55 patients. J Neurosurg. 2005;102(6):1018-28. doi:10.3171/jns.2005.102.6.1018.
10. Sindou M, Lapras C. Neurosurgical treatment of pain in the Pancoast-Tobias syndrome: selective posterior rhizotomy and open antero-lateral C 2 -cordotomy. Advances in Pain Research and Therapy: Management of Superior Pulmonary Sulcus Syndrome. New York: Raven Press; 1982.
11. Kanpolat Y, Tuna H, BozkurtM, Elhan AH. Spinal and nucleus caudalis dorsal root entry zone operations for chronic pain. Neurosurgery. 2008;62(3 Supplement 1):235-42. doi:10.1227/01.neu.0000317398.93218.e0. discussion 42-4.
12. Teixeira MJ, Fonoff ET, Montenegro MC. Dorsal root entry zone lesions for treatment of pain-related to radiation-induced plexopathy. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2007;32(10):E316-E319. doi:10.1097/01.brs.0000261541.97749.e7.
13. Kanpolat Y. Percutaneous destructive pain procedures on the upper spinal cord and brain stem in cancer pain: CT-guided techniques, indications and results. Adv Tech Stand Neurosurg. 2007;32:147-73.
14. Kanpolat Y, Savas A, Caglar S, Akyar S. Computerized tomography-guided percutaneous extralemniscal myelotomy. Neurosurg Focus. 1997;2(1):e5.
15. Gildenberg PL. Myelotomy through the years. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2001;77(1-4):169-71.
16. Viswanathan A, Burton AW, Rekito A, McCutcheon IE. Commissural myelotomy in the treatment of intractable visceral pain: technique and outcomes. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2010;88(6):374-82. doi:10.1159/000319041. Recent series of myelotomy that discusses outcomes for commissural myelotomy, and for other techniques for performing myelotomy.
17. Nauta HJ, Soukup VM, Fabian RH, Lin JT, Grady JJ, Williams CG, et al. Punctate midline myelotomy for the relief of visceral cancer pain. J Neurosurg. 2000;92(2 Suppl):125-30.
18. Yen CP, Kuan CY, Sheehan J, Kung SS, Wang CC, Liu CK, et al. Impact of bilateral anterior cingulotomy on neurocognitive function in patients with intractable pain. J Clin Neurosci. 2009;16(2):214-9. doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2008.04.008.