{"title":"Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Arm Pain in an Adolescent Girl with Ewing Sarcoma as Bridge Therapy to Chemotherapy: A Case Report.","authors":"Ashlyn Brown, Saba Javed","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cancer commonly presents discomfort from abnormal cell growth in healthy tissue and is often inadequately managed. Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), mainly for non-cancer chronic pain, has emerged as a minimally invasive option for neuropathic cancer-related pain when conventional methods fail. Limited research, primarily in adults, has focused on PNS in the non-oncological population.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>A 14-year-old adolescent girl with a history of obesity, diabetes, and Ewing sarcoma in her left proximal humerus experienced severe pain, initially rated at 10/10. After undergoing ultrasound-guided left suprascapular PNS as a 60-day bridge therapy to chemotherapy, her pain improved to 3/10 at lead removal and remained at 4/10 at 3 months postremoval.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>PNS is a promising and less invasive neuromodulation approach for managing tumor-related bone pain. Our case study illustrates the effectiveness of PNS placement for significant pain reduction, although limitations, such as delayed response and the need for further randomized-controlled studies, are acknowledged.</p>","PeriodicalId":520525,"journal":{"name":"Pain medicine case reports","volume":"8 3","pages":"103-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pain medicine case reports","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Background: Cancer commonly presents discomfort from abnormal cell growth in healthy tissue and is often inadequately managed. Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), mainly for non-cancer chronic pain, has emerged as a minimally invasive option for neuropathic cancer-related pain when conventional methods fail. Limited research, primarily in adults, has focused on PNS in the non-oncological population.
Case report: A 14-year-old adolescent girl with a history of obesity, diabetes, and Ewing sarcoma in her left proximal humerus experienced severe pain, initially rated at 10/10. After undergoing ultrasound-guided left suprascapular PNS as a 60-day bridge therapy to chemotherapy, her pain improved to 3/10 at lead removal and remained at 4/10 at 3 months postremoval.
Conclusion: PNS is a promising and less invasive neuromodulation approach for managing tumor-related bone pain. Our case study illustrates the effectiveness of PNS placement for significant pain reduction, although limitations, such as delayed response and the need for further randomized-controlled studies, are acknowledged.
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号
