The importance of a word: How to translate 'breakthrough'

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-

  Gonçalves, José António Ferraz ^a  

^a PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; FRANCE; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NOMENCLATURE; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PORTUGAL;

HUMANS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 42649098261     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216307087141     Document Type: Letter

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2. Mercadante, S, Radbruch, L, Caraceni, A, et al. Episodic (breakthrough) pain: consensus conference of an expert working group of the European Association for Palliative Care. Cancer 2002; 94: 832-839.
3. Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa. Lisboa: Publicações Alfa, S.A., 1991.