Glucocorticoids for acute and persistent postoperative neuropathic pain: What is the evidence?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 371-373

  Romundstad, Luis ^a   Stubhaug, Audun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOCANNABINOID; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RATS; SPINAL NERVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

EID: 34548283128     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.anes.0000279487.27940.5c     Document Type: Editorial

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