Surgical treatment of chronic phantom limb sensation and limb pain after lower limb amputation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1562-1572

  Prantl, Lukas ^a,b   Schreml, Stephan ^a   Heine, Norbert ^a   Eisenmann Klein, Marita ^a   Angele, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MORPHINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB PAIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHANTOM PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERAPY EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PHANTOM LIMB; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33750988220     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000233048.15879.0e     Document Type: Article

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