Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 117-123 , October 2006

Evaluating the analgesic effect of the perioperative perineural infiltration of bupivacaine and clonidine at the site of injury following lower extremity amputation

  • Scott S. Reuben

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Baystate Medical Center and the Tufts University School of Medicine, 759 Chestnut Street, Springfield, MA 01199, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 413 794 4325; fax: +1 413 794 5349.
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  • Karthik Raghunathan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Baystate Medical Center, United States
    • ,
  • Scott Roissing

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Baystate Medical Center, United States

Received 5 July 2006 ,Accepted 6 July 2006.

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PII: S1366-0071(06)00073-8

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2006.07.001

Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 117-123 , October 2006

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