TABLE VI.

Common locations along the sympathetic chain amenable to neurolysis

Sympathetic ganglia	Pain syndrome
Cervicothoracic (stellate) ganglion	Neuropathic pain from head and neck cancers, post-mastectomy pain, superior sulcus syndrome
Celiac plexus	Upper abdominal or back pain associated with cancer of the esophagus, pancreas, liver, or stomach
Lumbar ganglia	Flank pain or lower abdominal pain from urologic cancers
Superior hypogastric plexus	Lower pelvic pain from colon, rectal, or gynecologic cancers
Ganglion impar	Perineal and rectal pain from anal or rectal cancer