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Article: Warm needle therapy for the treatment of post cervical cancer radical surgery bladder numbness.(Acupuncture and Moxibustion)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Keywords: Chinese medicine, acupuncture, warm needle, post cervical cancer radical surgery bladder numbness
Radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer patients can damage the nerves associated with the bladder. Therefore, post-operative bladder numbness and urinary retention is not uncommon in these women. Xie Ying published an article titled, "A Clinical Audit of the Treatment of 136 Cases of Post Cervical Cancer Radical Surgery Bladder Numbness with Warm Needle Moxibustion," in issue #4, 2002 of Zhong Yi Za Zhi (Journal of Chinese Medicine) on page 267. A precis of this article appears below.
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