Managing skeletal related events resulting from bone metastases

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7678, 2008, Pages 1101-1105

  Wilkinson, Anna N ^a   Viola, Raymond ^b   Brundage, Michael D ^c  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; RADIOISOTOPE; STEROID; TRASTUZUMAB; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE BIOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE NECROSIS; BONE PAIN; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEVER; FRACTURE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; MONOTHERAPY; MYALGIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOPSY; BONE NEOPLASMS; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIPHOSPHONATES; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; PAIN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 56549129311     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a2041     Document Type: Review

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