Table 2.
Inclusion Criteria | Exclusion Criteria |
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Subjects are status post amputation of an upper or lower limb (ie, amputation is not congenital) | Active infection |
Refractory PLP, despite conservative (nonsurgical) management for > 6 months | Underlying congenital segmentation or other spinal anomalies that result in differential nerve root pressures |
Positive anesthetic/steroid block, as performed under CT guidance in an analogous fashion to planned cryoablation procedure | Significant spinal stenosis interpreted as “severe” on any cross-sectional imaging study |
Ability and willingness of patient to provide written informed consent | Pregnant or planning to become pregnant |
Immunosuppression | |
History or laboratory results indicative of any significant cardiac, endocrine, hematologic, hepatic, immunologic, infectious, metabolic, urologic, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, dermatologic, psychiatric, renal, neoplastic, or other disorder that in the opinion of the principal investigator would preclude safe performance of cryoablation | |
Uncorrectable coagulopathies | |
Concurrent participation in another investigational trial involving systemic administration of agents or within the previous 30 d | |
Previous surgical intervention—after amputation—that may have altered target nerve |
PLP = phantom limb pain.