Successful intravenous regional sympathetic blockade (Bier's block) with guanethidine and lidocaine in a patient with advanced buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans): A case report

Angiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 493-496

  Paraskevas, Kosmas I ^a,c   Trigka, Aikaterini A ^b   Samara, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; GUANETHIDINE; LIDOCAINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BIER BLOCK; BUERGER DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; FINGER; FINGER AMPUTATION; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; FINGER TIP ULCER; GANGRENE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; PAIN; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REGIONAL SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SMOKING; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; ULCER;

EID: 22844432154     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970505600419     Document Type: Article

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