Dialogues on complex enalgesic strategies for difficult pain syndromes

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 599-603

  Mercadante, Sebastiano ^a   Villari, Patrizia ^a   Ferrera, Patrizia ^a  

^a LA MADDALENA CANCER CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adjuvants; Cancer pain; Ketamine; Opioids; Spinal route

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; GABAPENTIN; KETAMINE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; BONE TUMOR; DRUG COMBINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RECTUM TUMOR; STANDARD; SYNDROME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BONE NEOPLASMS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME;

EID: 4043080743     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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