Gastrointestinal symptoms secondary to implanted spinal cord stimulators

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 547-549

  Thakkar, Nikhil ^a   Connelly, Neil Roy ^a,b   Vieira, Peter ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MYOSITIS; NAUSEA; NERVE ROOT INJURY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 0042347798     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000068981.30265.82     Document Type: Article

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