Quantitative assessment of differential sensory blockade after lumbar epidural lidocaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1071-1075

  Tay, Beng ^a   Wallace, Mark S ^a,b   Irving, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOUCH;

EID: 0031004923     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199705000-00021     Document Type: Article

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