Severe Intractable Facial Pain Attenuated by a Combination of 830 nm Diode low Reactive-Level Laser Therapy and Stellate Ganglion Block: A Case Report

Laser Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-158

  Tamagawa, Shingo ^a   Otsuka, Hiroshi ^a   Kemmotsu, Osamu ^a   Kakehata, Jin ^a   Numazawa, Rie ^a   Mayumi, Takahisa ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

antidepressant agent; facial pain; LLLT; neuropathic pain; stellate ganglion block; trigger point block

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002448608     PISSN: 08985901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5978/islsm.8.155     Document Type: Article

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