Management of chronic upper abdominal pain in cancer: Transdiscal blockade of the splanchnic nerves

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 500-506

  Plancarte, Ricardo ^a   Guajardo Rosas, Jorge ^a   Reyes Chiquete, David ^a   Chejne Gómez, Faride ^a   Plancarte, Andrea ^b   González Buendía, Nadia I ^a   Cerezo Camacho, Oscar ^c   Lee, Ángel ^d   Medina Santillan, Roberto ^e  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Instituto Nacional de Cancerología   (Colombia)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^e INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149238287     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181fa6b42     Document Type: Article

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