Alcohol SPN under CT guidance appears as a safe and effective treatment of refractory facial pain, especially in cases of cluster headache and persistent idiopathic facial pain.
La prise en charge de la douleur cancéreuse souvent révélatrice et toujours présente à un moment donné de la maladie est un challenge thérapeutique en particulier à un stade évolué. La composante douloureuse ne répond pas toujours aux antalgiques majeurs, à la chimiothérapie et à la radiothérapie. Quand ces traitements sont dépassés, les infiltrations, neurolyses, alcoolisations, la vertébroplastie, la cimentoplastie et la radiofréquence par voie percutanée sont des méthodes élégantes et efficaces venant en complément des traitements classiques. Les auteurs présentent ici leur expertise dans ces nouvelles techniques sous contrôle tomodensitométrique qu'ils ont contribué à mettre au point.Abstract: Bone invasion by metastatic tumours is the most common cause of pain in cancer patients. The management of cancer pain, pain that often reveals the disease and is always present at advanced stages, is an important and difficult task. High doses of specific medications, chemotherapy and radiation therapy do not always succeed in effectively controlling pain. When these treatments do not provide adequate relief, neurolysis, infiltration, alcoholization, percutaneous vertebroplasty, cementoplasty, and radiofrequency ablation are elegant and efficient complementary alternative pain management methods. The authors helped to develop these new techniques, which rely on CT guidance, and offer their expertise in how to apply them.
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