UI - 000034

AU - Isakova ME

AU - Larionova VB

AU - Sidorkin VA

AU - Tsirikhov SM

TI - Treatment of the pain syndrome in cancer patients by peridural administration of low doses of opiates. [Russian]

AB - Peridural injections of morphine were given to 180 incurable cancer patients suffering chronic pain.

The effectiveness of the said procedure as well as its side-effects were assessed. A relationship between the

external respiration parameters, on the one hand, and drug dosage and time postinjection, on the other, was

studied. The data obtained point to the effectiveness of the said method and suggest that it be used as a

universal procedure for the treatment of intractable pain in incurable patients

SO - Voprosy Onkologii 1987;33:94-97