Intrathecal Octreotide for Relief of Intractable Nonmalignant Pain: 5-Year Experience with Two Cases

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 203-207

  Paice, Judith A ^b   Penn, Richard D ^a   Kroin, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infusion pumps; Intrathecal infusion; Octreotide; Pain; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIAZEPAM; DOXEPIN; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; METHOCARBAMOL; MORPHINE; OCTREOTIDE; PARACETAMOL; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; OCTREOTIDE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, INTRACTABLE;

EID: 0030030325     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199601000-00047     Document Type: Article

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