A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, controlled dose finding study of NGX-4010, a high-concentration capsaicin patch, for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia

Journal of Pain

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 972-982

  Webster, Lynn R ^a   Malan, T Philip ^b   Tuchman, Michael M ^c   Mollen, Martin D ^d   Tobias, Jeffrey K ^e   Vanhove, Geertrui F ^e  

^a Lifetree Clinical Research and Pain Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Palm Beach Neurological Center   (United States)

^d Arizona Research Center   (United States)

^e NeurogesX Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

capsaicin; Neuropathic pain; postherpetic neuralgia

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; APPLICATION SITE PAIN; APPLICATION SITE PAPULE; APPLICATION SITE PRURITUS; APPLICATION SITE REACTION; APPLICATION SITE SWELLING; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENDER; HEADACHE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFESTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; NUMERIC PAIN RATING SCALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; ANTIPRURITICS; CAPSAICIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957245226     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2010.01.270     Document Type: Article

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