Pain Relieving Effect of Intraoperative Chemical Splanchnicectomy of Celiac Ganglions in Patients with Resectable Pancreatic or Gastric Masses: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Table 2

Pain score trends.

	Before surgery	One day after surgery	Two days after surgery	Four days after surgery	At discharge	One month after surgery	Two months after surgery	Four months after surgery
Whipple
Injected	3.17 (0.47)	5.26 (0.34)	4.09 (0.61)	3.13 (0.47)	1.83 (0.37)	1.65 (0.32)	1.35 (0.24)	1.04 (0.24)
Not-injected	2.89 (0.56)	5.84 (0.63)	5.32 (0.61)	4.42 (0.56)	3.42 (0.52)	2.37 (0.58)	2.26 (0.34)	1.63 (0.47)
Gastrectomy
Injected	3.58 (0.48)	5.33 (0.52)	4.33 (0.52)	3.38 (0.48)	2.29 (0.47)	2.00 (0.32)	1.46 (0.32)	1.96 (0.31)
Not-injected	2.50 (0.46)	6.67 (0.41)	5.75 (0.48)	4.96 (0.46)	3.79 (0.40)	3.54 (0.47)	3.46 (0.43)	1.92 (0.43)

Note. Values are reported as mean (standard deviation).