Disappearance of phantom limb pain during cauda equina compression by spinal meningioma and gradual reactivation after decompression

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1123-1126

  Aydin, Mehmet D ^a   Cesur, Mehmet ^a,b   Aydin, Nazan ^a   Alici, Haci A ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Yunus Emre Mahallesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CASE REPORT; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHANTOM PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE TUMOR;

EID: 25644458345     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000175768.11507.BC     Document Type: Article

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