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Ultraschall Med 2025; 46(02): 120-123
DOI: 10.1055/a-2520-5545
Editorial

Sonographic Anatomy or How Diagnostic Ultrasound is Becoming a Therapeutic Tool

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H. Gruber
  Medical University of Innsbruck – Tirol Kliniken, Clinics of Radiology, Subdepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound
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E. Skalla-Oberherber
  Medical University of Innsbruck – Tirol Kliniken, Clinics of Radiology, Subdepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound
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A. Loizides
  Medical University of Innsbruck – Tirol Kliniken, Clinics of Radiology, Subdepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound
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Many physicians still believe it is lege artis to perform invasive pain therapy blind, simply based on “medical intuition”. The results that can be expected are usually limited [1] and are primarily related to placebo effects [2], with the procedure often being better described as “art” than precision, and a comparatively larger number of complications like (transient) neurological deficits, bleeding, severe ischemia (rarely even with spinal cord injury), and infections can be expected [3]. This is apparently also the reason for the classification of focal instillations as inferior in algorithms and guidelines for pain management. They are categorized as secondary to most other procedures and treatments and are described as an unreliable “last option” [4] [5].



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