Interventional Radiology in Pain Treatment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kastler, Bruno (Editor), Barral, Fabrice-Guy (Editor), Fergane, Bernard (Editor), Pereira, Philippe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Interventional radiology.; Radiotherapy.; Pain medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Interventional Radiology.; Pain Medicine.; Diagnostic Radiology.

Disease whether it is acute, chronic, or at end stage, is all too regularly accompanied by pain. Pain is often difficult to control, in malignant disease in particular, even by using appropriate medications. Anesthesiologists and pain therapists have developed new invasive therapies including nerve...