Chronic post-thoracotomy pain-What is new in pathogenic mechanisms and strategies for prevention?

Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 83-89

  Wildgaard, Kim ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Nerve injury; Pain Analgesia; Risk factors; Thoracotomy; Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POST THORACOTOMY PAIN SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; THORACIC EPIDURAL ANALGESIA; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 82555180460     PISSN: 1084208X     EISSN: 15584534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.trap.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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