Cancer Pain and Neurolysis

Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 175-185

  Teng, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALCOHOL; AMMONIA; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORPROPAMIDE; CISPLATIN; CODEINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DISULFIRAM; FENTANYL; GLYCEROL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; NEUROLYTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE AGONIST; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PACLITAXEL; PARACETAMOL; PHENOL; STEROID; TOLBUTAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINCA ALKALOID;

ABSCESS; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BACKACHE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BURNING SENSATION; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CONSTIPATION; CORNEA ULCER; CRYOANESTHESIA; DEMYELINATION; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBOLISM; ENTEROPATHY; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; HYPOTENSION; IMPOTENCE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KERATITIS; KIDNEY INJURY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MENINGITIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURALGIA; NEURITIS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERINEURIUM; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERITONITIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ULCER; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VASOSPASM; VOMITING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0344011134     PISSN: 02770326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-0326(03)00048-5     Document Type: Article

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