Sympathetic nerve blocks, pragmatic trials, and responder analysis

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-14

  Sethna, Navil F ^a,b   Berde, Charles B ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LIDOCAINE; TRASTUZUMAB;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; BREAST CANCER; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY;

EID: 84655163973     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31823d776f     Document Type: Editorial

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