Preventing painful age-related bone fractures
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Preventing painful age-related bone fractures
Age-related bone fractures are usually painful and have highly negative effects on a geriatric patient's functional status, quality of life, and survival. Currently, there are few analgesic therapies that fully control bone fracture pain in the elderly without significant unwanted side effects. However, another way of controlling age-related fracture pain would be to preemptively administer an ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Pain
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1744-8069,1744-8069
DOI: 10.1177/1744806916677147