Acute Pain
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 39-42 , March 2007

Thoracic epidural anaesthesia for thoracotomy, oesophageal myotomy and cystotomy-capitonnage in an elderly patient wıth achalasia due to scleroderma

  • Demet Dogan Erol

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Dumlupinar Mah. Hüseyin Tevfik Cad. No.: 11/8 03200 Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. Tel.: +90 542 4308744; fax: +90 272 2133066.

Received 20 April 2006 ,Revised 9 November 2006 ,Accepted 20 November 2006.

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☆ Presented in part at the European Society of Regional Anaesthesiology III. Congress in Izmir, Turkey, 13–15 January, 2005.

PII: S1366-0071(06)00205-1

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2006.11.002

Acute Pain
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 39-42 , March 2007

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