A case of cancer pain management by long-term intrathecal PCA

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 333-337

  Sato, Chiyo ^a   Okabe, Tadashi ^a   Nakanishi, Kazuhiro ^a   Sakamoto, Atsuhiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer pain; Intrathecal therapy; Ketamine; Opioid; Patient controlled analgesia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LOXOPROFEN; MELOXICAM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FATALITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LONG TERM CARE; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SOMNOLENCE; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URETER CANCER; VOMITING;

EID: 78650099343     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.77.333     Document Type: Article

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