Human fetal adrenal transplant: A possible role in relieving intractable pain in advanced rheumatoid arthiritis

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 197-206

  Bhattacharya, N ^a,f   Chhetri, M K ^b,c   Mukherjee, K L ^d   Prasad Das, S ^e   Mukherjee, A ^e   Bhattacharya, M ^e   Bhattacharya, S ^e  

^a Bijoygarh State Hospital   (India)

^b Health Services   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Training   (India)

^e JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Human fetal adrenal transplant; Pain relief; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ENDORPHIN DERIVATIVE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LIDOCAINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIATHERMY; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS HEART; FETUS LIVER; FETUS LUNG; FEVER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYSTEROTOMY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMED CONSENT; INJURY; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREGNANCY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAFETY; SCAR; STEROIDOGENESIS; THYMUS TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN; WELLBEING; WOUND HEALING;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, INTRACTABLE;

EID: 0036904058     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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