High Dose Levo-Methadone Treatment for Cancer Pain in a Patient with a History of Drug Addiction

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-231

  Ostgathe, Christoph ^a   Gaertner, Jan ^a   Nauck, Friedemann ^b   Voltz, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; CELECOXIB; CLONAZEPAM; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPYRONE; FLUPIRTINE; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; LEVOMETHADONE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SOMNOLENCE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHADONE; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 39549108491     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.08.008     Document Type: Letter

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