Economic evaluation of "pulse dose" radiofrequency in the treatment of occipital neuralgia headache.

Transl Med UniSa

Department of Biomedical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering.

Published: May 2012

Headache occipital neuralgia is an example of pain-disease for which treatment both pharmacological protocols and invasive methods are used. Among the latter, the RF (Radiofrequency) pulse-dose has been of interest for the prospects of analgesic efficacy, safety and patient compliance, although at the moment only data concerning the pulsed RF and not the RF pulse-dose, that represents its evolution, are discussed in scientific literature. The purpose of this study is a "simple" economic evaluation of this method in headache occipital neuralgia.

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