Narcotic Bowel Syndrome: Is It More Common Than Before?
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Narcotic Bowel Syndrome: Is It More Common Than Before?
TO THE EDITOR: We read the recent article Farmer et al on narcotic bowel syndrome (NBS) with great interest. The authors have comprehensively described a case of NBS along with the exciting pathophysiology. It further illustrates the common vicious cycle we see in daily clinical practice: a patient with chronic abdominal pain being prescribed opiates, which further worsens the pain and thereby ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2093-0879,2093-0887
DOI: 10.5056/jnm.2013.19.2.273