Alleviating head and neck pain.
Pain in patients who have cancer can be caused by direct effects of the tumor or by complications of treatment, or it can be unrelated to the disease or its treatment. This article discusses interventional pain procedures in the treatment of head and neck pain as they relate to malignancies and cervicogenic headache and neck pain.
Mehio
Abdel-Kader
AK
Department of Anesthesiology, Boston Medical Center, 88 East Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA. amehio@bu.edu
Shah
Swapneel K
SK
D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000294:innervation; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000628:therapy; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009407:Nerve Block / Q000379:methods; D009777:Occipital Bone / Q000294:innervation; D010146:Pain / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D059408:Pain Management; D051298:Post-Traumatic Headache / Q000503:physiopathology; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000033:anatomy & histology