Intravenous Ketorolac significantly reduces the pain of office transrectal ultrasound and prostate biopsies

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-124

  Mireku Boateng, A O ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Ketorolac; Prostate biopsies; Transrectal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; KETOROLAC;

AGE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFECTION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANALGESIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETOROLAC; OFFICE VISITS; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 8344255848     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079691     Document Type: Article

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