[Clinical application of combined acupuncture-drug anesthesia in cerebral functional area operation].
OBJECTIVE
To reach for higher tumor resection rate and low incidence of disability by operation with combined acupuncture-drug anesthesia in cerebral functional area.


METHODS
According to the different operation ways, two groups of combination of body-acupuncture and ear-acupuncture were adopted.


RESULTS
Satisfactory effect was obtained in all the 80 patients, including 20 cases in language center and 60 in sensory and motor center. The anesthesia grade 1 rate was 100%. After operation, no aggravation in dysphasia or dysfunction was found, 5 cases showed aggravation on myasthenia and dysesthesia, but all recovered within 2-4 weeks.


CONCLUSIONS
Operation with combined acupuncture-drug anesthesia might result high tumor resection rate and low incidence of disability, therefore, this method of anesthesia could be regarded as one of the routine anesthesia methods.
Yan
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Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai (200040).
Jiang
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Liang
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D015667:Acupuncture Analgesia; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019162:Anesthetics, Combined; D018686:Anesthetics, Intravenous; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005283:Fentanyl; D005910:Glioma / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged
D019162:Anesthetics, Combined; D018686:Anesthetics, Intravenous; D005283:Fentanyl