Spinal alcohol neurolysis for intractable thoracic postherpetic neuralgia after test bupivacaine spinal analgesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 244-247

  Lauretti, Gabriela R ^a,b   Trevelin, Wilder R ^a   Frade, Luis Cleber P ^a   Lima, Izabel C P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Rua Campos Sales   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALCOHOL; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CAPSAICIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPYRONE; GABAPENTIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; KETOPROFEN; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MELOXICAM; METHADONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RANITIDINE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALLODYNIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATOME; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLYSIS; PAIN; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STELLATE GANGLION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 3042638137     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200407000-00037     Document Type: Article

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