Crossed transvertebral puncture to block spinal ganglion in treatment of pain.
A simple and highly efficient percutaneous method eliminating the spinal ganglion and its posterior spinal cord root in treating metameric pain is described. Monitored by X-ray the needle crosses the vertebral canal passing e.g. from the right into the left intervertebral space. The intervention itself is made by a mesocaine alcohol block. The first experience with 12 patients is favourable in postdiscotomic syndromes or lumbar and causalgic pains in lower extremities having no mechanical cause discovered by CT.
Kolarík
J
J
Research Institute of Higher Nervous Activity, Palacký University Olomouc.
Nádvorník
P
P
Dvorák
M
M
Andrs
M
M
D000083:Acetanilides / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000328:Adult; D001340:Autonomic Nerve Block; D001416:Back Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002422:Causalgia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D005727:Ganglia, Spinal / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000601:surgery; D007796:Laminectomy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy; D014288:Trimecaine / Q000008:administration & dosage*
D000083:Acetanilides; D014288:Trimecaine