Treatment of chronic hip osteoarthritic pain with intra-articular phenol

This case report aims to introduce the use of intra-articular phenol in the management of chronic pain due to severe hip osteoarthritis in a patient with multiple comorbidities, in whom operative management was not an option. Phenol has been used in pain medicine since 1936, as a neurolytic agent. I...

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Main Authors: John Monagle, Joanne Ee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Pain
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Online Access:http://www.indianjpain.org/article.asp?issn=0970-5333;year=2013;volume=27;issue=1;spage=41;epage=43;aulast=Monagle