Percutaneous Cordotomy—A Simplified Approach to the Management of ...
Cordotomy for palliation of intractable pain was simplified by the use of a stereotactic percutaneous technique. The procedure is performed at the high ...
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BioPortfolio - Cordotomy
Cordotomy is a surgical procedure that disables selected pain-conducting tracts in the spinal cord, in order to achieve loss of pain and temperature ...
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Bilateral percutaneous cervical cordotomy: immediate and long-term ...
Thirty-six patients with neoplastic disease suffering from chronic bilateral pain were subjected to bilateral percutaneous cervical cordotomy. ...
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Five-year follow-up of a cordotomy.
Percutaneous cervical cordotomy is an invasive procedure to treat severe, opioid -resistant cancer pain. It is usually proposed for patients with a limited ...
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Percutaneous cervical cordotomy: results and complications in a ...
Mullan S, Hekmatpanah J, Dobben G, Beckman F. Percutaneous, intramedullary cordotomy utilizing the unipolar anodal electrolytic lesion. J Neurosurg. ...
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Computed tomography-guided percutaneous cordotomy for intractable ...
Cordotomy is one of the treatment choices in pain caused by malignancies localized unilaterally to the extremities as well as the thorax and the abdomen. ...
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Percutaneous cervical cordotomy for the control of pain in ...
Percutaneous cervical cordotomy, which interrupts the spinothalamic tract at the C1/C2 level causing contralateral loss of pain sensation, is particularly ...
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Bilateral high-level percutaneous cervical cordotomy in cancer ...
BACKGROUND: Computed tomography-guided high-level percutaneous cordotomy has been used unilaterally or bilaterally for the treatment of localized ...
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Long-term efficacy of surgical cordotomy in intractable non ...
The available evidence, though scanty, suggests that the decline in the analgesic efficacy of cordotomy tends to 'plateau' with the passage of time, ...
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BioPortfolio - Cordotomy - InDepth
Cordotomy is a surgical procedure that disables selected pain-conducting tracts in ... cordotomy is effective for relieving unilateral, somatic pain while ...
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