Gabapentin for breakthrough pain due to bone metastases

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 392-393

  Caraceni, Augusto ^a   Zecca, E ^a   Martini, C ^a   Pigni, A ^a   Bracchi, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; ANALGESIA; BODY MOVEMENT; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; CANCER PAIN; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; REST; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING;

AMINES; ANALGESICS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46049112684     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308089304     Document Type: Letter

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