Quality of life improvement after videothoracoscopic splanchnicectomy in chronic pancreatitis patients: Case control study

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 906-911

  Makarewicz, Wojciech ^a   Stefaniak, Tomasz ^a   Kossakowska, Marlena ^b   Basiński, Andrzej ^a   Suchorzewski, Marek ^c   Stanek, Aleksander ^a   Gruca, Zbigniew B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b Academy of Bydgoszcz   (Poland)

^c Nicholas Copernicus Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PAIN; PANCREATITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING; VIDEOTHORACOSCOPIC SPLANCHNICECTOMY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PANCREATITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 0042326299     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-6837-7     Document Type: Article

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