1998 Labat lecture: The role of the neurolytic celiac plexus block in pancreatic cancer pain management: Do we have the answers?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 611-614

  Ischia, Stefano ^a   Polati, Enrico ^a   Finco, Gabriele ^a   Gottin, Leonardo ^a   Benedini, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CELIAC PLEXUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROLYSIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031730808     PISSN: 0146521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1098-7339(98)90090-6     Document Type: Article

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