Improving postoperative analgesia in after mastectomy: Is now the time for an international randomized controlled trial?

Mansoor Syed Yousuf¹, Irfan Sohail¹, Sumbal Bhatti², Julie Cox^{3

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Affiliations

¹ County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Durham, UK.
² Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
³ Department of Radiology, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.

Randomized Controlled Trial

Mansoor Syed Yousuf et al. Breast J. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;26(7):1464-1465.

doi: 10.1111/tbj.13732. Epub 2020 Jan 14.

Mansoor Syed Yousuf¹, Irfan Sohail¹, Sumbal Bhatti², Julie Cox^{3

4}

¹ County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, Durham, UK.
² Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
³ Department of Radiology, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: anesthesia; local; mastectomy; surgical wound.

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