Fentanyl nasal spray for the treatment of cancer pain

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1653-1659

  Mystakidou, Kyriaki ^a   Panagiotou, Irene ^a   Gouliamos, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

breakthrough pain; cancer; chitosan fentanyl; intranasal

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; FENTANYL CITRATE; OPIATE; PLACEBO;

ANALGESIA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BREAKTHROUGH PAIN; CANCER PAIN; CONSTIPATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSGEUSIA; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; LIVER METABOLISM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NOSE CONGESTION; NOSE MUCOSA; PHARYNGITIS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RHINITIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINUS CONGESTION; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FENTANYL; HUMANS; NASAL SPRAYS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PECTINS;

EID: 79958697340     PISSN: 14656566     EISSN: 17447666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14656566.2011.585637     Document Type: Article

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