Fluoroscopic stellate ganglion block for postmastectomy pain: A comparison of the classic anterior approach and the oblique approach

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 207-213

  Nabil Abbas, Dina ^a   Abd El Ghafar, Ekramy M ^a   Ibrahim, Wael A ^a   Omran, Azza F ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

postmastectomy pain; stellate ganglion block; techniques of stellate ganglion block

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HOARSENESS; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 79951670797     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e3181fb1ef1     Document Type: Article

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