[CT-guided pain treatment].

In minimal invasive pain therapy interventional radiologists have 4 CT-guided procedures available which generally are easy to perform and have a low complication rate. While neurolytic blockade of the celiac plexus is an established procedure, particularly in patients with malignancies in the upper abdomen, further studies are needed to establish the value of intraarticular facet blockade and CT-guided periradicular therapy. CT-guided nerve root ablation can be recommended in patients with therapy-resistant pain due to tumor compression of nerve roots.