Alcohol sclerosing therapy is not an effective treatment for interdigital neuroma

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 576-580

  Espinosa, Norman ^a   Seybold, Jeffrey D ^b   Jankauskas, Linas ^a   Erschbamer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Ethanol; Foot; Interdigital neuroma; Morton's neuroma; Sclerosing therapy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BUPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERDIGITAL NEUROMA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROTHERAPY; THERAPY EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROTHERAPY;

EID: 79958260945     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2011.0576     Document Type: Article

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