BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Cingulotomy is a well-accepted stereotactic procedure in
the treatment of debilitating pain syndromes. At our institution, we used a 980-nm diode …

BACKGROUND: Bilateral anterior cingulotomy is well described for certain pain and
psychiatric disorders. Typically, stereotactic frame-based radiofrequency ablation is used …

To document the value of cingulotomy for pain relief, a series of 22 patients with medically
intractable pain, including 15 with cancer pain and seven with non-cancer pain, underwent …

Background Anterior cingulotomy (AC) was originally used to treat patients with a psychiatric
disorder, but it is also useful for treating patients with chronic intractable pain. We reviewed …

Background: Stereotactic anterior cingulotomy has been used in the treatment of patients
suffering from refractory oncological pain due to its effects on pain perception. However, the …

This study presents a new and simplified method of creating cingulate gyrus lesions by
using stereotaxis guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Previous methods have …

Conservative therapy is often the first-line treatment for many symptoms of various disease
processes, including pain. Nevertheless, if pharmacological or medical management fails for …

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy
(MRIgLITT) was demonstrated to be a viable neurosurgical tool. Apart from its variety of …

Magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRgLITT) is a novel minimally
invasive modality that uses heat from laser probes to destroy tissue. Advances in probe …

Incoercible or intractable pain is defined as pain that is refractory to pharmacological
treatment to such an extent that opioid and analgesic adverse effects outweigh the …