Ganglion impar blocks for chronic pelvic and coccyx pain [2]

Pain Physician

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 780-781

  Foye, Patrick M ^a  

^a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; BACKACHE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLUOROSCOPY; GANGLION BLOCK; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEEDLE; NEUROLYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; COCCYX; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROSCOPY; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; NEEDLES; PELVIC PAIN; SACRUM;

EID: 36749014022     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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