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- N S Milligan and T P Nash.
- Basingstoke District Hospital, Aldermaston Road, Basingstoke, HampshireU.K.
- Pain. 1985 Dec 1; 23 (4): 381-386.
AbstractThe treatment of 77 consecutive cases of post-herpetic neuralgia is reviewed. Stellate blockade proved helpful in 75% of patients with pain of less than 1 year's duration; 40% became virtually pain free. Drug treatment and electrical counterirritation methods gave improvement in 60% of cases but only 15% became pain free. Stellate block carried out after 1 year of pain proved helpful in only 44% of patients, and only 22% became pain free. Stellate blockade carried out within 1 year of the onset of symptoms would appear to be one of the treatments of choice for post-herpetic neuralgia. It would be of interest to see the results of a controlled randomised trial.
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