Neurectomy for Treatment of Intercostal Neuralgia

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1766-1770

  Williams, Eric H ^a,b   Williams, Christopher G ^b   Rosson, Gedge D ^a,b   Heitmiller, Richard F ^c   Dellon, A Lee ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Inst for Peripheral Nerve Surgery   (United States)

^c UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; INTERCOSTAL NEURALGIA; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NERVE INJURY; NEURALGIA; NEURECTOMY; NEUROMA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERCOSTAL NERVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURALGIA; NEUROMA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RIBS;

EID: 42949168187     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.11.058     Document Type: Article

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