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KMID : 0378119950220020503
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Chungnam Medical Journal
1995 Volume.22 No. 2 p.503 ~ p.510
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Epidural Catheterization using a Subcutaneous Tunneling for Treatment of Terminal Cancer Pain
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Thirty patients with cancer pain refractory to other methods of pain control were treated with epidural morphine delivered through a placed percutaneous lumbar epidural catheter with a subcutaneous tunneling.
morphine requirements during first 1 week were 6-10mg/day. Maximum opioid requirement before death day was morphine 15-100mg/day. Mean catheter life span was about 30 days. Side effects after epidural morphine wee nausea and vomiting (27%),
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retention, pruritis, respiratory depression (13%).
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