Cryoanalgesia for painful peripheral nerve lesions.
Twelve patients with chronically painful peripheral nerve lesions were treated with cryoanalgesia. The pain was relieved in 6 patients for 1-12 months. Although the pain eventually recurred, the patients resumed normal activities during remission. It is necessary to improve the techniques of nerve localization and to determine the proper mode of nerve freezing.
D003452:Cryosurgery; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000601:surgery*