Intractable pain treated with intrathecal isotonic iced saline
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Intractable pain treated with intrathecal isotonic iced saline.
Hitchcock's original method of hypothermic subarachnoid irrigation employed both temperature and osmolarity. Spinal cooling was then abandoned in favour of intrathecal injection of normothermic hypertonic salilne. Modifications of the procedure that followed have continued to accept hyperosmolarity as the factor causing pain relief. Fifty patients were treated by a technique evolved to enhance ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.36.3.417