[Indication and use of adjuvant analgesics on chronic pain].
Adjuvant analgesics including antidepressant and anticonvulsant are highly useful toward intractable chronic pains, especially neuropathic pain. In recent years, selection of the first line treatment is done by balancing between efficacies of candidate drugs and their potential adverse effects. While evaluating the efficacy of a drug is easy when it is used alone; however, it may not be always so if multiple drugs are used concurrently.
Iseki
Masako
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Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Clinic, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo.
D000277:Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*
D000277:Adjuvants, Pharmaceutic; D000700:Analgesics