Success in surgery may not require cutting the tracts.
Two patients are described in whom surgical intervention was terminated prior to the lesioning of any pathways relevant to pain and yet the surgery relieved the chronic severe pain.
D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000601:surgery*; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000601:surgery; D010178:Pancoast Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D013901:Thoracic Outlet Syndrome / Q000601:surgery