Pain management in palliative care oncology patients

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 257-261

  Gavrin, Jonathan R ^a   McMenamin, Erin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROMORPHONE; LIDOCAINE; METHADONE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYCODONE; PHENOBARBITAL;

ADULT; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DELIRIUM; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; EPIDURAL CATHETER; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE METASTASIS; THORACOTOMY; ARTICLE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 58149195613     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-008-0044-z     Document Type: Review

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