Treatment of patients with painful blind eye using stellate ganglion block

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: management of pain in painful blind eyes is still a challenge. Corticosteroids and hypotensive agents, as well as evisceration and enucleation, are some of the strategies employed so far that are not always effective and, depending on the strategy, cause a deep emotional...

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Main Authors: Tatiana Vaz Horta Xavier, Thiago Robis de Oliveira, Tereza Cristina Bandeira Silva Mendes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia 2016-02-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-70942016000100075&lng=en&tlng=en