Management of lower limb complex regional pain syndrome type 1: An evaluation of percutaneous radiofrequency thermal lumbar sympathectomy versus phenol lumbar sympathetic neurolysis - A pilot study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 647-649

  Manjunath, Prashanth S ^a,d   Jayalakshmi, T S ^b   Dureja, G P ^b   Prevost, A Toby ^c  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Apartment PH 13 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SYMPATHECTOMY; LUMBAR SYMPATHETIC NEUROLYSIS; NEUROLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS RADIOFREQUENCY THERMAL LUMBAR SYMPATHECTOMY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 38549103037     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000298285.39480.28     Document Type: Article

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