Thoracoscopic thoracic splanchnicectomy for chronic pancreatitis with intractable abdominal pain

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 213-218

  Kusano, Toshiomi ^a   Miyazato, Hiroshi ^a   Shiraishi, Masayuki ^a   Yamada, Mamoru ^a   Matsumoto, Mitsuyuki ^a   Muto, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Chronic pancreatitis; Thoracoscopic thoracic splanchnicectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERCOSTAL NERVES; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACOSCOPES; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 0031001064     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199706000-00007     Document Type: Article

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