Quantitative and Selective Evaluation of Differential Sensory Nerve Block after Transdermal Lidocaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 248-251

  Sakai, Tetsuya ^a   Tomiyasu, Shiro ^a   Yamada, Hiroyuki ^a   Ono, Takeshi ^a   Sumikawa, Koji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; BETA NERVE FIBER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRENT PERCEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; GEL; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN SENSATION; TOUCH;

EID: 0346733074     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000093232.72967.76     Document Type: Article

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