Sympathetic block does not reduce acute vascular pain in humans

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 588-590

  Holthusen, Holger ^a   Stanton Hicks, Michael ^b   Arndt, Joachim O ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING;

ADULT; BLOOD VESSELS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0031909159     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199803000-00029     Document Type: Article

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