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Anesthesiology and Pain Management pp 153–180Cite as

Neurolytic and Neuroablative Procedures

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Destructive procedures are now less frequently used in the treatment of pain than was previously the case. However, they still play an important role in some specific chronic non-cancer pain syndromes such as ischemic limb pain; the use of sympathetic nervous system blocks is considered in an accompanying presentation. The entire subject of neurolytic (1) and neuroablative (2) procedures has been recently reviewed.

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Cousins, M.J. (1991). Neurolytic and Neuroablative Procedures. In: Stanley, T.H., Ashburn, M.A., Fine, P.G. (eds) Anesthesiology and Pain Management. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3318-0_12

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