Managing intractable pain with an intrathecal catheter and injection port: Technique and guidelines

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1054-1060

  Meenan, Daniel ^a   Lagares Garcia, Jorge A ^b   Kurek, Stanley ^b   Craig, Dianna ^b   Green, James ^a   Fritz, William ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE PORT SYSTEM; INFUSION PUMP; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE;

EID: 0032701080     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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