Corticosteroids for preventing postherpetic neuralgia

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Han, Ying ^a   Zhang, Jingjing ^b   Chen, Ning ^b   He, Li ^b   Zhou, Muke ^b   Zhu, Cairong ^c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPEPSIA; EDEMA; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATEMESIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; NAUSEA; PNEUMONIA; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; AGE; META ANALYSIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880066071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005582.pub4     Document Type: Review

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