Pain treatment after thoracotomy: Is it a special problem?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1411-1414

  Salzer, Georg M ^a   Klingler, Paul ^a   Klingler, Anton ^a   Unger, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PIRINITRAMIDE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0031149017     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00081-7     Document Type: Article

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