Gabapentin significantly improves analgesia in people receiving opioids for neuropathic cancer pain

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-62

  Caraceni, Augusto ^a   Zecca, E ^c   Bonezzi, C ^c   Bennett, Michael I ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b St Gemma's Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; CANCER; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INFECTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; JAW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESTLESSNESS; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN DEFECT; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; TREMOR; VERTIGO;

EID: 13844266548     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2004.12.001     Document Type: Note

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