Tinkering With a Tarnished Technique: Isn't It Time to Abandon Celiac Plexus Blockade for the Treatment of Abdominal Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 106-108

  Wilcox, C Mel ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANALGESIA; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIARRHEA; EDITORIAL; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLYSIS; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PARALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 12; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL PAIN;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CELIAC PLEXUS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GANGLIONIC BLOCKERS; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; TRIAMCINOLONE;

EID: 84856025805     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.10.039     Document Type: Editorial

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