Journal:
:anesthesiology and pain medicine
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kyoko sasauchi department of dental anesthesiology, school of life dentistry at tokyo, the nippon dental university, tokyo, japan; the nippon dental university, school of life dentistry at tokyo, department of dental anesthesiology, 1-9-20 fujimi chiyodaku tokyo 102-8159, japan. tel: +81-332616083, fax: +81-332220926
katsuhisa sunada department of dental anesthesiology, school of life dentistry at tokyo, the nippon dental university, tokyo, japan
tatsuo nakamura department of bioartificial organs, institute for frontier medical sciences, kyoto university, kyoto, japan
background continuous epidural analgesia with catheterization is a useful technique, because it has a wide adaptation range and provides prolonged analgesia. problems that may arise from long-term epidural analgesia are changes in the analgesic area, duration of analgesia and catheter-related problems. few articles have evaluated gradual changes of long-term epidural analgesia. in the animal mo...