Major abdominal surgery for cancer: Does epidural analgesia have a long-term effect on recurrence-free and overall survival?

Annales Francaises d'Anesthesie et de Reanimation

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Binczak, M ^a   Tournay, E ^a   Billard, V ^a   Rey, A ^a   Jayr, C ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidural analgesia; Major abdominal surgery; Metastasis; Morphine; Recurrence; Survival

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; MORPHINE;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FENTANYL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; INFUSIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878736331     PISSN: 07507658     EISSN: 17696623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annfar.2013.02.027     Document Type: Article

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