Cryoanalgesia: A novel treatment for hip adductor spasticity and obturator neuralgia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 534-536

  Kim, Philip S ^b   Ferrante, F Michael ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cryoneurolysis; Peripheral neurolysis

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; DANTROLENE; TIZANIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYOANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; NEURALGIA; NEUROLYSIS; OBTURATOR NERVE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTICITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; ANALGESIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLD; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEURALGIA; OBTURATOR NERVE;

EID: 0031858828     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199808000-00036     Document Type: Article

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