Analgesic effects of preoperative gabapentin after tongue reconstruction with the anterolateral thigh flap

Hong Kong Medical Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-34

  Chiu, T W ^a   Leung, Czarina C H ^b   Lau, Edgar Y K ^a   Burd, Andrew ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acetic acids; Analgesics; Gamma aminobutyric acid; Head and neck neoplasms; Pain; Postoperative

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; OPEN STUDY; ORAL SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEDATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TONGUE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINES; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; ANTIEMETICS; COHORT STUDIES; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THIGH; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857159863     PISSN: 10242708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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