Intrathecal steroid therapy for postherpetic neuralgia: A review

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 631-637

  Nelson, Dewey A ^a   Landau, William M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressant therapy; Chronic pain; Intatrechal steroid therapy; Methylprednisolone acetate; Placebo factor; Postherpetic neuralgia; Subarachnoid space; Varicella zoster virus vaccine

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACICLOVIR; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; BENZYDAMINE; BENZYL ALCOHOL; CALAMINE; CAPSAICIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MACROGOL; MAPROTILINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ARACHNOIDITIS; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVULSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; PLEOCYTOSIS; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SPINAL GANGLION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

EID: 0036046192     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.2.5.631     Document Type: Review

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