ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2013
Ganglion impar blockade: a review.
Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Sympathetic nerve blocks for persistent pain in adults with inoperable abdominopelvic cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- CT-guided injection in coccydynia: outcome prediction using MRI findings and CT-injection characteristics.European radiology · 2026Article
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- A Novel Coaxial Transosseous Technique for Ganglion Impar Block in Radiation-Induced Sacrococcygeal Fusion.Cureus · 2025Article
- Chronic Coccygodynia and ganglion impar block: How does contrast material distribution affect treatment outcomes?Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2025Article
- Ganglion Impar Neurolysis to Treat Refractory Chronic Pain From Vulvar Cancer: A Case Report.Cureus · 2024Article
- Coccygeal Nerve Blockade vs. Impar Ganglion Blockade in Coccydynia: A Randomised Clinical Trial.Cureus · 2024Article
- Interventional Pain Management in the Treatment of Chronic Pelvic Pain.Current urology reports · 2023Review
- Rare complication of ganglion impar blockade with the transsacrococcygeal approach: A case of rectal perforation.Turkish journal of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Interventional Treatment Modalities for Chronic Abdominal and Pelvic Visceral Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- Agents Used for Nerve Blocks and Neurolysis.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2022Review
- Efficacy of ganglion impar block on vulvodynia: Case series and results of mid- and long-term follow-up.Medicine · 2021Article
- Interventional Therapies for Pain in Cancer Patients: a Narrative Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2021Review
- Factors associated with Successful Responses to Ganglion Impar Block: A Retrospective Study.International journal of medical sciences · 2021Article
- Interventional treatment options for women with pelvic pain.Current physical medicine and rehabilitation reports · 2020Article
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- Conus infarction after non-guided transcoccygeal ganglion impar block using particulate steroid for chronic coccydynia.Spinal cord series and cases · 2019Article
- Treatment of radiation-induced cystitis and vulvodynia via a ganglion impar block using a lateral approach under computed tomography guidance: a case report.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2017Article
- Ganglion blocks as a treatment of pain: current perspectives.Journal of pain research · 2017Review
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Since its original description in 1990, blockade of the ganglion impar (ganglion of Walther) has become a widely used intervention in the management of pelvic and perineal pain. We review the indications, techniques, and evidence for this pain intervention.
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