Case reports: Zoster pain in haematological malignancies: Effective pain relief with oxycodone in patients unresponsive to other analgesic measures

Herpes

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 45-47

  Niscola, Pasquale ^a   Perrotti, Alessio Pio ^a   Del Poeta, Giovanni ^a   Romani, Claudio ^b   Palombi, Massimiliano ^a   Piccioni, Daniela ^a   Scaramucci, Laura ^a   Tolu, Barbara ^a   Tendas, Andrea ^a   Cupelli, Luca ^a   Abruzzese, Elisabetta ^a   D'Elia, Gianna Maria ^c   Brunetti, Gregorio Antonio ^c   Maurillo, Luca ^a   Giovannini, Marco ^d   Cartoni, Claudio ^c   De Fabritiis, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Oncologico A Businco   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Umberto I Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Haematological malignancies; Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Immunosuppression; Leukaemia; Multiple myeloma; Non Hodgkin's lymphomas; Opioids; Oxycodone; Pain; Post herpetic neuralgia

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; GABAPENTIN; OXYCODONE; PREGABALIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE ZOSTER PAIN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PAIN; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; OXYCODONE; PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

EID: 35048892506     PISSN: 09697667     EISSN: 14701537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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