Successful treatment of digital ulcers in a scleroderma patient with continuous bilateral thoracic sympathetic block

Pain Physician

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-96

  Han, Kyung Ream ^a   Kim, Chan ^a   Park, Eun Jung ^a  

^a Ajou University Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Raynaud's phenomenon; Scleroderma; Thoracic sympathetic catheter

Indexed keywords

CILAZAPRIL; FENTANYL; LIMAPROST; LOSARTAN; MEPIVACAINE; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIGITAL ULCER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; HAND DISEASE; HAND PARESTHESIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SCLERODERMA; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPTOM; THORACIC SPINE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MEPIVACAINE; PAIN; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN ULCER; SYMPATHOLYTICS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 38949093805     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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