The effectiveness of tricyclic antidepressants on lumbar spinal stenosis

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-24

  Orbai, Ana Maria ^a   Meyerhoff, John O ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESICS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951168938     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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