Relieving the pain of sentinel lymph node biopsy tracer injection

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 668-670

  Fetzer, Susan ^b   Holmes, Sue ^a,b  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Southern New Hampshire Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; EMLA; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PRILOCAINE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OCCLUSIVE DRESSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; LIDOCAINE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRILOCAINE; RADIOISOTOPES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55249125451     PISSN: 10921095     EISSN: 1538067X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/08.CJON.668-670     Document Type: Article

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