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Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma
We report the case of a 28-year-old male patient diagnosed with extensive metastatic Ewing sarcoma that affected his facial bones. The patient came to us with left-sided jaw/facial pain that could not be managed successfully through conservative methods. We utilized radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10550653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37809233 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44675 |
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author | Toropchyn, Volodymyr Kumar, Sanjeev Guan, Dawei |
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description | We report the case of a 28-year-old male patient diagnosed with extensive metastatic Ewing sarcoma that affected his facial bones. The patient came to us with left-sided jaw/facial pain that could not be managed successfully through conservative methods. We utilized radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of the left Gasserian (trigeminal) ganglion to alleviate the patient's pain successfully. Although this method is commonly used to treat trigeminal neuralgia, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented case where Gasserian ganglion RFA has been successfully used to manage pain in a patient with jaw cancer. |
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spelling | pubmed-105506532023-10-06 Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma Toropchyn, Volodymyr Kumar, Sanjeev Guan, Dawei Cureus Neurology We report the case of a 28-year-old male patient diagnosed with extensive metastatic Ewing sarcoma that affected his facial bones. The patient came to us with left-sided jaw/facial pain that could not be managed successfully through conservative methods. We utilized radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of the left Gasserian (trigeminal) ganglion to alleviate the patient's pain successfully. Although this method is commonly used to treat trigeminal neuralgia, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented case where Gasserian ganglion RFA has been successfully used to manage pain in a patient with jaw cancer. Cureus 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10550653/ /pubmed/37809233 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44675 Text en Copyright © 2023, Toropchyn et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Toropchyn, Volodymyr Kumar, Sanjeev Guan, Dawei Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma |
title | Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma |
title_full | Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma |
title_fullStr | Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma |
title_short | Radiofrequency Ablation of Gasserian Ganglion in Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma |
title_sort | radiofrequency ablation of gasserian ganglion in metastatic ewing sarcoma |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10550653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37809233 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44675 |
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