Treatment of postherpetic neuralgia with intravenous administration of vitamin C [54]

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1616-1617

  Chen, Jen Yin ^a   Chu, Chin Chen ^a   So, Edmund C ^a   Hsing, Chung Hsi ^a   Hu, Miao Lin ^b  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID;

AGED; CASE REPORT; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETABLE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; ASCORBIC ACID; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC;

EID: 33845614013     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000246396.64010.ee     Document Type: Letter

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