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Iontophoresis using a local anesthetic for the treatment of pediatric acute herpetic pain

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812-8582, Fukuoka, Japan

    Kenji Kodama, Yoshiro Sakaguchi, Masamune Tominaga, Etsuko Kanna & Shosuke Takahashi

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812-8582, Fukuoka, Japan

    Takato Morioka

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812-8582, Fukuoka, Japan

    Chiaki Miyazaki

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Kodama, K., Sakaguchi, Y., Morioka, T. et al. Iontophoresis using a local anesthetic for the treatment of pediatric acute herpetic pain. J Anesth 12, 95–99 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480779

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