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Pulsed radiofrequency treatment within brachial plexus for the management of intractable neoplastic plexopathic pain

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We report on the use of pulsed radiofrequency (RF) within the plexus for the management of intractable pain in three patients with metastatic or invasive plexopathy. The patients were a 38-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer 6 years earlier whose computed tomography (CT) scans revealed a mass lesion at the infraclavicular part of the right brachial plexus, a 68-year-old man diagnosed with advanced lung cancer whose CT scans revealed a bone metastasis in the right humerus invading the axillary region of the right brachial plexus, and a 67-year-old woman diagnosed with advanced lung cancer whose CT scans revealed a bone metastasis in the left humerus invading the axillary region of the left brachial plexus. Ultrasound-guided pulsed RF was performed within the interscalene brachial plexus. During the follow-up period, their intractable pain was moderately controlled.

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Arai, YC.P., Nishihara, M., Aono, S. et al. Pulsed radiofrequency treatment within brachial plexus for the management of intractable neoplastic plexopathic pain. J Anesth 27, 298–301 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-012-1501-8

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