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PERCUTANEOUS RADIO-FREQUENCY GANGLIOLYSIS [1 record]

Record 1 2018-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neurosurgery
DEF

Gangliolysis produced by radiofrequency currents applied to a ganglion by a needle passed through the skin.

CONT

Radiofrequency gangliolysis (RFG) involves wounding the gasserian ganglion, the large, flat root of the trigeminal nerve. Guided by x-ray technology, the surgeon inserts a needle through the cheek and into the rootlets behind the gasserian ganglion to inject a radiofrequency current. This current heats and destroys selected portions of the gasserian ganglion thought to be responsible for the pain.

OBS

gangliolysis: The dissolution or breaking up of a ganglion.

Key term(s)
  • percutaneous radio-frequency gangliolysis
  • radio-frequency gangliolysis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Neurochirurgie
OBS

gangliolyse par courant de radiofréquence; gangliolyse par radiofréquence : termes proposés par inférence à partir des justifications qui suivent.

OBS

Les principales interventions neurochirurgicales de la douleur sont [...] la gangliolyse cœliaque à l'alcool pur pour les douleurs des cancers sus-mésocoliques [...]

OBS

Traitement des tachycardies par courant de radiofréquence.

Key term(s)
  • gangliolyse par courant de radio-fréquence
  • gangliolyse par radio-fréquence

Spanish

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