Postamputation pain and sensory changes in treatment-naive patients: Characteristics and responses to treatment with tramadol, amitriptyline, and placebo

Anesthesiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 619-628

  Wilder Smith, Clive H ^a,b   Hill, Lauren T ^a   Laurent, Sophie ^a  

^a EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^b Brain Gut Research Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; TRAMADOL; TRAMAL RETARD;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; NAUSEA; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

EID: 24344431682     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200509000-00027     Document Type: Article

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