Saline frontal lobotomy for the relief of pain
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TL;DR
Saline frontal lobotomy is a valuable procedure in certain circumstances, and the purlme of this paper is to delineate the indications for this procedure.
Abstract
w PROBLEMS confronting the physician are Fc more distressing than the patient with piiinful cancer. 'The suIEering patient, his clesper" te family, and the 1 esponsible physician call upon the neurosurgeon for some means of relief from thc clevastai.ing effer ts of chronic p i n . After an evaluatiori of the patient, the disease, and the pain, thr most suitable means of accomplishing this end must be indiviclualiicd, naniely, relief of pain with minimal satrifice 01 essential function, time, and money. Saline frontal lobotomy is a valuable procedure in certain circumstances, and the purlme of this paper is to delineate our indications for this procedure.