title: Anticholinesterase drugs in the treatment of chronic pain.
abstract: Two patients with severe thalamic pain and one patient with causalgia from the shoulder-hand syndrome are described whose pain was markedly improved or abolished by anticholinesterase drugs. Both short-acting parenteral and oral anticholinesterase preparations were employed. Anticholinesterase drugs are a new and potentially valuable approach to the treatment of chronic pain.
mesh_terms: D001132:Arm; D002800:Cholinesterase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009388:Neostigmine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010830:Physostigmine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011413:Propantheline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011729:Pyridostigmine Bromide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012782:Shoulder; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D002800:Cholinesterase Inhibitors; D011413:Propantheline; D009388:Neostigmine; D010830:Physostigmine; D011729:Pyridostigmine Bromide