Interventional Radiology in Pain Treatment

Disease whether it is acute, chronic, or at end stage, is all too regularly accompanied by pain. Pain is often difficult to control, in malignant disease in particular, even by using appropriate medications. Anesthesiologists and pain therapists have developed new invasive therapies including nerve...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kastler, Bruno (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed. 2007
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Evaluating and Managing Pain in a Pain Management Center
  • Pain and Psyche
  • Computertomography-guided Percutaneous Interventions
  • Complications and Patient Management
  • Foraminal Injections of Corticosteroids Under Tomodensitometric Control
  • Spinal Infiltrations: Technical Difficulties and Potential Complications
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • Arnold’s Neuralgia
  • Pterygopalatine Ganglion Neurolysis Under CT Guidance
  • Stellate Ganglion Neurolysis Under CT-Guidance
  • Percutaneous Neurolysis of the Celiac Plexus and Splanchnic Nerves
  • Other Sympatholysis
  • Pudendal Nerve Infiltration Under CT Guidance
  • Injection of Inguinofemoral Nerves
  • Vertebroplasty and Cementoplasty
  • Aspiration and Lavage of Calcific Shoulder Tendinitis
  • Other Analgesic Bone Procedures
  • Fractures of the Pelvic Girdle: CT-guided Percutaneous Fixation
  • Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pain Therapy
  • Treating Painful Osseous Metastases by Internal Radiation Therapy