Acute Pain
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 9-14 , March 2008

An evaluation of postoperative epidural analgesia in acute pain service in an Indian cancer hospital (a preliminary experience of patient satisfaction survey)

Received 28 March 2006 ,Revised 23 August 2007 ,Accepted 1 October 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2007.10.001

Acute Pain
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 9-14 , March 2008

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