Diagnostic neural blockade in the management of pain

Pain Digest

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 194-199

  Guarino, Anthony H ^a   Staats, Peter S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISKOGRAPHY; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; DORSAL ROOT; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ROOT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030847413     PISSN: 09389016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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