Limited effect of thoracoscopic splanchnicectomy in the treatment of severe chronic pancreatitis pain: a prospective long-term analysis of 75 cases

Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 715-722

  Buscher, Hessel C J L ^b   Schipper, Ellen E ^b   Wilder Smith, Oliver H G ^a   Jansen, Jan B M J ^a   van Goor, Harry ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE SURGERY; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPLANCHNICECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE FEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44749084534     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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