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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:1828-1829
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Intrapleural Bupivacine for Postthoracotomy Analgesia

C.S. Pramesh, MS, FRCS, Rajesh C. Mistry, MS, Gouri H. Pantvaidya, MS, MRCS, Vikram R. Ghanekar, MS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400012, India

(E-mail: cspramesh@vsnl.net).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read with interest the article by Tetik and associates [1] on the efficacy of intrapleural administration of bupivacaine hydrochloride for postthoracotomy analgesia. We were perplexed by the design of the trial and wonder what the aim of the study was. Any intervention that is to be tested in a randomized trial needs to be compared with the existing "standard" treatment. If the aim of the authors was to evaluate . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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