Cryoanalgesia. A new approach to pain relief.
Cryotherapy has been clinically applied to relieve pain using a new cryosurgical probe to block peripheral nerve function to achieve analgesia. Sixty-four patients with intractable pain were treated with cryoanalgesia. Fifty-two obtained relief of pain for a median duration of 11 days and a range of up to 224 days.
D000698:Analgesia / Q000379:methods*; D003452:Cryosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005156:Facial Neuralgia / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007367:Intercostal Nerves; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D009407:Nerve Block / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D059408:Pain Management; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications; D012585:Sciatica / Q000150:complications