Rational multidrug therapy in the treatment of neuropathic pain

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-38

  Backonja, Misha Miroslav ^a   Irving, Gordon ^b   Argoff, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CAPSAICIN; DULOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; IMIPRAMINE; LEVORPHANOL; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PLACEBO; PREGABALIN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POLYPHARMACY; REVIEW;

ANALGESICS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; NEURALGIA;

EID: 33645054816     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-006-0007-1     Document Type: Review

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