Single dose preemptive amitriptyline reduces postoperative neuropathic pain after lumbar laminectomy and discectomy: A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 151-158

  Vahedi, Payman ^a   Salehpour, Firooz ^a   Aghamohammadi, Dawood ^b   Shimia, Mohammad ^b   Lotfinia, Iraj ^b   Mohajernezhadfard, Zahra ^c   Vahedi, Yazdan ^d  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Shohada Hospital   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

amitriptyline; discectomy; laminectomy; neuropathic pain; opioid; postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; MORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCAPSULE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PARALLEL DESIGN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STUDENT T TEST; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 77955534887     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNQ.0b013e3181ebce15     Document Type: Article

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