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Intractable pain treated with intrathecal isotonic iced saline

Hitchcock's original method of hypothermic subarachnoid irrigation employed both temperature and osmolarity. Spinal cooling was then abandoned in favour of intrathecal injection of normothermic hypertonic salilne. Modifications of the procedure that followed have continued to accept hyperosmola...

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Main Authors: Savitz, Martin H., Malis, Leonard I.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1973
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC494341/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4740300
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