The use of lumbar sympathetic blockade at l4 for management of malignancy-related bladder spasms

Pain Physician

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 305-310

  Gulati, Amitabh ^a   Khelemsky, Yury ^b   Loh, Jeffrey ^b   Puttanniah, Vinay ^a   Malhotra, Vivek ^a   Cubert, Kenneth ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder spasm; Cancer pain; Lumbar sympathetic block; Splanchnic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; DARIFENACIN; IOHEXOL; METHADONE; MITOMYCIN; MORPHINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OXYBUTYNIN; PHENAZOPYRIDINE; PREGABALIN; TRAMADOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER METASTASIS; BLADDER SPASM; BLADDER TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 79957845609     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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