Successful treatment of severe sympathetically maintained pain following anterior spine surgery

Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-70

  Woo, Jae Hee ^a   Park, Hahck Soo ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anterior spine surgery; Sympathetic block; Sympathetic dysfunction

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; MEPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARM PAIN; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CASE REPORT; DYSESTHESIA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; NECK PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC DYSFUNCTION; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 84929922203     PISSN: 20053711     EISSN: 15987876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3340/jkns.2014.56.1.66     Document Type: Article

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