Corticosteroids for preventing postherpetic neuralgia

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  He, Li ^a   Zhang, D ^b   Zhou, M ^b   Zhu, C ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE ZINC PHOSPHATE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA EXTRACTION; DEATH; DIZZINESS; HEART FAILURE; HEMATEMESIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NEURITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

EID: 44949124610     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005582.pub2     Document Type: Review

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