Contrast-enhanced ultrasound-guided celiac plexus neurolysis in patients with upper abdominal cancer pain: initial experience.
Lu WangMan LuXiaobo WuXueqing ChengTingting LiZirui JiangYuping ShenTing LiuYue MaPublished in: European radiology (2020)
• CEUS-guided celiac plexus neurolysis (CPN) is feasible and easy. • It allows direct visualization of the diffusion of the neurolytic agent in the retroperitoneal anatomic space. • CEUS-guided CPN improves safety of CPN by clearly delineating the needle path.
Keyphrases
- ultrasound guided
- contrast enhanced
- contrast enhanced ultrasound
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted
- fine needle aspiration
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- papillary thyroid
- diffusion weighted imaging
- chronic pain
- celiac disease
- pain management
- squamous cell
- neuropathic pain
- squamous cell carcinoma
- spinal cord injury
- robot assisted
- young adults