Percutaneous radio-frequency neurotomy for chronic cervical zygapophyseal-joint pain
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Percutaneous radio-frequency neurotomy appears to be successful in treating neck pain in people who have sustained a whiplash injury. This technique involves inserting an electrode through the skin over the vertebrae in the neck and using radio waves to partially destroy the nerve. Of 24 patients with neck pain following an automobile accident, 12 received this treatment and 12 received the treatment but without the radio waves (the control group). Those in the treatment group went a median of 263 days before their pain returned to half its preoperative level. Those in the control group experienced a return of pain after a median of 8 days.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1996
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Follow-up of patients with early breast cancer
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The course of treatment, the consequences, appropriate medications, counseling, and weight bearing exercises that are required by patients who have survived breast cancer is discussed.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2007
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