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ArticleBMJ supportive & palliative care2020

Intractable pain and cordotomy.

Sebastiano Mercadante

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In one paragraph

Article in BMJ supportive & palliative care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07400055 (Evaluation of Medulla Spinalis Edema After CT-Guided Percutaneous Cervical Cordotomy Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Its Association With Postprocedural Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Cancer Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07400055 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Evaluation of Medulla Spinalis Edema After CT-Guided Percutaneous Cervical Cordotomy Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Its Association With Postprocedural Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Cancer Pain

TypeobservationalSponsorMersin UniversityRan2026 to 2027Enrolled15ConditionsCancer Pain, Intractable Pain, Spinal Cord Edema, Neuropathic PainArmsCT-guided Percutaneous Cervical Cordotomy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Sebastiano MercadantePain Relief and Supportive Care, Private Hospital La Maddalena, Palermo 90146, Italy terapiadeldolore@lamaddalenanet.it.ORCID 0000-0001-9859-6487

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cancer PainIntractable PainCordotomyHumanscancerclinical decisionspain

Identifiers

PMID32434924

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