Post tonsillectomy pain: Can honey reduce the analgesic requirements?

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 198-202

  Boroumand, Peyman ^a   Zamani, Mohammad Mahdi ^b   Saeedi, Masoumeh ^a   Rouhbakhshfar, Omid ^a   Motlagh, Seyed Reza Hosseini ^a   Moghaddam, Fatemeh Aarabi ^c  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analgesics; Honey; Pain; Postoperative; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893228756     PISSN: 22287523     EISSN: 22287531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/aapm.9246     Document Type: Article

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