Pain: Painful diabetic neuropathy-new choice of first-line therapy?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 381-383

  Tentolouris, Nicholas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREGABALIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; HUMAN; NEURALGIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; DECISION MAKING; DRUG COMBINATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; STANDARD;

ANALGESICS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 79959617180     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2011.93     Document Type: Review

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