Postsurgical pain outcome of vertical and transverse abdominal incision: Design of a randomized controlled equivalence trial [ISRCTN60734227]

BMC Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-7

  Reidel, Margot A ^a   Knaebel, Hanns Peter ^a   Seiler, Christoph M ^a   Knauer, Christine ^b   Motsch, Johann ^a   Victor, Norbert ^b   Büchler, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; DIPYRONE; PARACETAMOL; PIRITRAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL APPROACH; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 2942719029     PISSN: 14712482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-3-9     Document Type: Article

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