A review of urogenital pain

Pain Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-84

  Baranowski, A P ^a,b   Mallinson, C ^a   Johnson, N S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CAPSAICIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEXILETINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OPIATE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ANATOMY; BLADDER; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PENIS; PERINEUM; PROSTATE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TESTIS; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; URETER; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VISCERAL PAIN; VULVA;

EID: 0032956452     PISSN: 09681302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/096813099677643615     Document Type: Review

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