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KMID : 0363119930060020255
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Korean Journal of Pain
1993 Volume.6 No. 2 p.255 ~ p.257
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Stellate Ganglion Block for Shoulder Hand Syndrome following Hemiplegia
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Abstract
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Shoulder Hand Syndrome is used to describe painful disabilities of the upper extremity due to disturbances of sympathetic nerve supply. A 72 year old male developed hemiplegia on left side on the 5 days after open heart surgery of aortic valve
replacement.
Three months later, the patient complained of severe pain in the left upper extremity involving shoulder. The left hand showed swelling and flaccid paralysis. Thereafter the left stellate garglion block with 10 ml 0f 1% lidocaine produced prompt
pain
relief. Thereafter the patient received 94 stellate ganglion block during 7 months which produced permanent remission of pain throughout a 1 vear follow period. We recommand sympathetic block for of Shoulder Hand Syndrome following hemiplegia.
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