Severe acute visceral pain from varicella zoster virus

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1117-1118

  Hyland, Jacqueline M ^b   Butterworth, John ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; DIHYDROMORPHINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; DERMATOME; DISEASE SEVERITY; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

EID: 0141681069     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000081789.58565.31     Document Type: Article

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