Role of Pituitary Radiosurgery for the Management of Intractable Pain and Potential Future Applications

Motohiro Hayashi,Takaomi Taira,Mikhail Chernov,Masahiro Izawa,Roman Liscak,C.P. Yu,Robert T. K. Ho,Yoko Katayama,Nobuo Kouyama,Yoriko Kawakami,Tomokatsu Hori,Kintomo Takakura

Role of Pituitary Radiosurgery for the Management of Intractable Pain and Potential Future Applications

2003

Motohiro Hayashi
Takaomi Taira
Mikhail Chernov
Masahiro Izawa
Roman Liscak
C.P. Yu
Robert T. K. Ho
Yoko Katayama
Nobuo Kouyama
Yoriko Kawakami
Tomokatsu Hori
Kintomo Takakura

Rationale: Two or three decades ago, cancer pain was treated by surgical/chemical hypophysectomy. In one report, the control of central pain (thalamic pain syndrome) was also approa

Keywords:

Anesthesia
Intractable pain
Thalamic pain
Radiosurgery
Bone metastasis
Central pain
Cancer pain
Diabetes insipidus
Medicine
Adverse effect
Surgery
Chemical hypophysectomy
gamma knife

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