A double-blind study on clonazepam in patients with burning mouth syndrome

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 813-816

  Heckmann, Siegfried M ^a   Kirchner, Elena ^a   Grushka, Miriam ^b   Wichmann, Manfred G ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b William Osler Health Center   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

glossodynia; hypogeusia; irritation; Pain; taste; treatment

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SALIVATION; SIDE EFFECT; SMELLING; TASTE; ZERSSEN MOOD SCALE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME; CLONAZEPAM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GABA MODULATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVA; SMELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858748127     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.22490     Document Type: Article

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