| Treatment of IntractabIe Cancer Pain with Alcohol Celiac Plexus Block . |
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Yoo Young Cho, Duck Mi Yoon, Jong Rae Kim, Hung Kun Oh, Kwang Won Park |
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Department of Anesthesiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. |
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| Abstract |
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Intractable pain from nonresectable or recurrent cancer of upper abdominal organs has been treated in many ways. We chose the method of 50% alcohol celiac plexus block for the pain relief. The results were as follows: 1) It is relatively simple, highly effective, and a less hazardous means of palliative therapy. 2) Satisfactory pain relief was seen in 11 cases (91.7%), excluding 1 case (8.3%) with no improvement in hospitalization state. We concluded this block is remarkably safe as well as effective and should be employed more frequently. |
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