When all else fails: Stepwise multiple solutions for a complex cancer pain syndrome

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-50

  Mercadante, S ^a,b   Serretta, R ^b   Sapio, M ^b   Villari, P ^b   Calderone, L ^b  

^a SAMOT Onlus   (Italy)

^b Buccheri La Ferla Fatebenefratelli Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bupivacaine; Cancer pain; Clonidine; Neostigmine; Spinal opioids

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; NEOSTIGMINE;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CLONIDINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SCIATICA; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0032998936     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005200050223     Document Type: Article

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