Intracerebroventricular Pain Treatment with Analgesic Mixtures including Ziconotide for Intractable Pain
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Intracerebroventricular Pain Treatment with Analgesic Mixtures including Ziconotide for Intractable Pain.
Intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of opioids for control of intractable cancer pain has been used since 1982. We present here our experience of intracerebroventricular administration of pain treatments including ziconotide associated with morphine and ropivacaine for patients resistant to a conventional approach, with nociceptive, neuropathic, or mixed pain. These clinical cases were...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pain Physician
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2150-1149,1533-3159
DOI: 10.36076/ppj/2016.19.e905