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Abdominal radiofrequency ablation was associated with acute lumbosacral radiculopathy in 3 cases, all of whom experienced significant spontaneous clinical improvement.
Case Report (n=3)
Abdominal radiofrequency ablation can cause acute lumbosacral radiculopathy, likely due to thermal injury, but it appears to have a good prognosis with spontaneous improvement.
Alerts clinicians to possible transient radiculopathy after abdominal RFA; leaves open true incidence and risk factors.
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a treatment modality for several types of malignancies and vascular malformations. Only limited information is available on neurologic complications following RFA. We report three cases of acute lumbosacral radiculopathy after abdominal RFA, in two of which electrophysiologic studies were performed. All three patients had significant spontaneous clinical improvement. We suggest the underlying cause was partial axonopathy due to thermal injury, but with a good prognosis.
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Coskun et al. (2003) conducted a case report in Acute lumbosacral radiculopathy (n=3). Abdominal radiofrequency ablation was evaluated on Spontaneous clinical improvement. Abdominal radiofrequency ablation was associated with acute lumbosacral radiculopathy in 3 cases, all of whom experienced significant spontaneous clinical improvement.
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