[Evaluation and treatment of chronic pain after cervicofacial cancer surgery].
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| Abstract |
When lasting pain occurs after surgery of head and neck cancer, tumoral recurrence should be considered. In addition to curative treatment, relief of pain is often provided by opioid analgesics. Doses vary according to tolerance and patient. Other than digestive routes of administration may be required. Here are two clinical reports: the first case with cervical epidural analgesia by ambulatory autoadministration device (Patient control analgesia), the other one with intrathecal in C7-T1 catheter with port access in which morphine was injected every 24 hours resulting in efficient analgesia, in metastatic Pancoast's syndrome. Surgical or radiotherapy sequelae sometimes bring about pain; bilateral cervicalgy described as burns associated with pain-related depression, 18 months after glotto-subglottic partial laryngectomy, requires psychological support and carbamazepine for desafferation pain removed within 6 months. When the only treatment left appears to be analgesia after surgery of head and neck cancer, follow-up in a multidisciplinary pain treatment centre allows a therapeutical management with optimum tolerance and efficiency.
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| Authors | S Donnadieu, S Nguyen, J Bertrand, M Dru, O Laccourreye, H Laccourreye |
| Journal | Annales d'oto-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico faciale : bulletin de la Societe d'oto-laryngologie des hopitaux de Paris (Ann Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac) Vol. 109 Issue 4 Pg. 211-4 ( 1992) ISSN: 0003-438X [Print] France |
| Vernacular Title | Evaluation et traitement des douleurs chroniques après chirurgie carcinologique cervico-faciale. |
| PMID | 1485751 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article) |
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