Neurolytic blocks revisited

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-13

  Jackson, Tracy P ^a   Gaeta, Raymond ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; GLYCEROL; OPIATE; PHENOL;

CANCER PAIN; CELIAC PLEXUS; CHEMICAL SYMPATHECTOMY; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOANESTHESIA; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATITIS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NERVE BLOCK; NEURALGIA; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHY; PARAPLEGIA; PARESIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RHIZOTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL GANGLION; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPATHECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DENERVATION; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; SYMPATHECTOMY;

EID: 39049153987     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-008-0003-8     Document Type: Review

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