Long-term spinal opioid therapy in terminally ill cancer pain patients

Oncologist

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 70-75

  Wagemans, Michel F M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analgesics: morphine, opioids; Anesthetic techniques: catheter, epidural, intrathecal, spinal; Pain: cancer

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; SUFENTANIL;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; CANCER PAIN; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERESTHESIA; LONG TERM CARE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TERMINAL DISEASE; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

EID: 0030895915     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2-2-70     Document Type: Review

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