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KMID : 0363119920050010113
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Korean Journal of Pain
1992 Volume.5 No. 1 p.113 ~ p.116
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Effect of Psoas Compartment Block in Low Extremity Pain from Stomach Cancer
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Abstract
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The psoas compartment block has been advocated as the technique of choice for the surgical correction of the fractured neck of the femur. It is, moreover, widely used as a technique for postoperative analgesia. This block has not been discribed
in
the
treatment of pain in cancer patients unitl 1988.
A 54-year-old woman with advanced stomach cancer complained of pain in the right leg. Psoas compartment block using bupivacaine and methylprednisolone; was effective for pain control.
Psoas compartment block is a useful procedure and can be of particular use in patients who have not responded to opiates or find the side-effects intolerable.
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