Neuropathic pain: Aetiology, symptoms, mechanisms, and management

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9168, 1999, Pages 1959-1964

  Woolf, Clifford J ^a   Mannion, Richard J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONIDINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; OPIATE; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; STEROID; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; CARDIOTOXICITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE ENDING; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOM; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0033526651     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)01307-0     Document Type: Review

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