title: Success in surgery may not require cutting the tracts.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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