TY - JOUR
KW - Aged
KW - Aged, 80 and over
KW - Anesthesia, Spinal
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Leg
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Pain
KW - Retrospective Studies
KW - Spinal Nerve Roots
AU - Tsuji C
AU - Saito T
AU - Hatano K
AB - <p>We studied leg pain experienced under spinal anesthesia in leprosy patients. Seven of twenty patients complained of the leg pain a few minutes after spinal block. The pain was localized in the parts of deafferentation or phantom limb, and was relatively mild and controllable. We consider that the inhibitory system is inactivated when the somatic impulse is blocked by spinal anesthesia, and as a result the abnormal burst activity of dorsal horn produced by peripheral nerve damage of leprosy causes phantom pain.</p>
BT - Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9185473?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1997 May
IS - 5
J2 - Masui
LA - jpn
N2 - <p>We studied leg pain experienced under spinal anesthesia in leprosy patients. Seven of twenty patients complained of the leg pain a few minutes after spinal block. The pain was localized in the parts of deafferentation or phantom limb, and was relatively mild and controllable. We consider that the inhibitory system is inactivated when the somatic impulse is blocked by spinal anesthesia, and as a result the abnormal burst activity of dorsal horn produced by peripheral nerve damage of leprosy causes phantom pain.</p>
PY - 1997
SP - 704
EP - 7
T2 - Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology
TI - [Leg pain under spinal anesthesia in leprosy patients].
VL - 46
SN - 0021-4892
ER -