TY - GEN AU - Rafat Fathy Mansour AU - Ali Abdelhamid Zohdi , AU - Magdi Ramzi Iskander , AU - Mohamed Sherif Soliman , TI - A radiographic and clinical evaluation of continuous lumbar plexus block for lower limb amputation surgery for improvement of phantom limb pain / PY - 2007/// CY - Cairo : PB - Rafat Fathy Mansour , KW - Amputation KW - Lumbar plexus block KW - Phantom pain N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - National Cancer Institute - Department Of Anaesthesia and Pain Relief; Issued also as CD N2 - Phantom limb pain may appear in up to 85 percent of after amputation.Continuous neural blockade reduces the incidence of phantom limb pain in coparison to general anesthesia.Continuous lumbar plexus block can be used for postopertive for thigh and knee surgery UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -