Bildgesteuerte Schmerztherapie – Interventional Radiology in pain Treatment under CT-Guidance – Which technique for what disease?

Radiologists at present are performing on routine basis biopsies, abscess drainage and other procedures under imaging guidance. These skills can be easily used in techniques for pain management. Recently for both diagnosis and pain treatment, a great number of interventional techniques have been elaborated including: greater occipital nerve, pudental nerve and superior hypogastric plexus infiltration, periradicular infiltration, stellate, spheno-palatine ganglion, thoracic and lumbar, splanchnic nerves and celiac plexus neurolysis, presacral, bone metastasis alcoholization and RF ablations, acrylic glue injectio…