Dose-response relationship of opioids in nociceptive and neuropathic postoperative pain
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Pain
- Vol. 74 (2), 205-211
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(97)00172-3
Abstract
The treatment of neuropathic pain with opioid analgesics is a matter of controversy among clinicians and clinician scientists. Although neuropathic pain is usually believed to be only slightly responsive to opioids, several studies show that satisfactory analgesia can be obtained if adequateThis publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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