Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 125-129 , October 2006

Tunnelled caudal catheter for perioperative analgesia in a woman with acute on chronic pelvic pain

Received 27 February 2006 ,Revised 5 June 2006 ,Accepted 19 June 2006.

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PII: S1366-0071(06)00037-4

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2006.06.001

Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 125-129 , October 2006

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