Treatment of Malignant Sacral Pain by Radiofrequency Lesion Generator

전기적(電氣的) 열응고술(熱凝固術)을 이용(利用)한 암성천골통증(癌性薦骨通症)의 관리(管理)

Efforts from many different approaches have been made to manage malignant sacral pain that commonly occurs in cancers from pelvic origin. Radiofrequency thermocoagulation provides a safe method of achieving long standing relief of intractable pain without some of the objectable side effects associated with other forms of chemical or surgical therapy. Radiofrequency sacral rhizotomy is a new method for the relief of the sacrococcygeal pain. We report a case in which we managed a patient with malignant sacrococcygeal pain with radiofrequency thermocoagulation.