Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy for primary erythromelalgia in the upper extremities

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 865-866

  Shiga, Toshiya ^a   Sakamoto, Atsuhiro ^a   Koizumi, Kiyoshi ^a   Ogawa, Ryo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; MEPIVACAINE; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSALGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ERYTHROMELALGIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032901412     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199904000-00034     Document Type: Article

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