Assessment of Long-Term Postoperative Pain in Open Thoracotomy Patients: Pain Reduction by the Edge Closure Technique

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1064-1070

  Sakakura, Noriaki ^a   Usami, Noriyasu ^a   Taniguchi, Tetsuo ^a   Kawaguchi, Koji ^a   Okagawa, Takehiko ^a   Yokoyama, Megumi ^a   Yokoi, Kohei ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDGE CLOSURE THORACOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE FLAP; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; NERVE COMPRESSION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949557969     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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