TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chemical Neurolysis A1 - Bottros, Michael M. A1 - Erdek, Michael A. A2 - Diwan, Sudhir A2 - Staats, Peter S. Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures AB - Neurolytic techniques have long been used in the treatment of pain. The underlying principle for neurolytic blocks is prolonged relief of intractable pain, most often in patients with malignancies. Pain associated with cancer may be visceral, somatic, and/or neuropathic in origin. Many cancer patients have a combination of these pain types at the time of their diagnosis. Pain is often reported when visceral structures are compressed, invaded, or distended. Visceral pain is often described as vague, dull, deep, constricting, crampy, or colicky in nature. Empirical data suggests that visceral sympathetically-mediated pain responds more favorably to neurolytic therapy than neuropathic pain.1 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1107200890 ER -