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Khalid Malik1, Honorio T Benzon, David Walega
1Department of Anesthesiology, Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University, Chicago, Il 60611, USA.
Case Reports in Anesthesiology
|May 19, 2012
Abstract:
We report the successful use of water-cooled radiofrequency where more traditional forms of neuroablation-conventional and pulsed radiofrequency-had failed to achieve adequate pain relief. We also discuss the mechanism of neural damage with water cooled radiofrequency and discuss why this technique may have a broader role in the management of a wide array of pain syndromes.
