Resolution of tumor pain with EMLA cream

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 694-697

  Stegman, Mary B ^a   Stoukides, Cheryl A ^b,c  

^a Hope Hospice   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c Medical Outcomes Management Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LORAZEPAM; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM; PRILOCAINE;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CREAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA;

AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; OINTMENTS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PRILOCAINE;

EID: 0029825881     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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