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Support Care Cancer · Mar 2000
Case ReportsMethadone as a rescue for failed high-dose opiate therapy for catastrophic pain.
- M P Davis.
- Columbus Oncology Associates, Ohio, USA.
- Support Care Cancer. 2000 Mar 1;8(2):138-40.
AbstractMethadone is a unique opioid with several special properties besides being a mu agonist, which makes for difficulty in the calculation of equianalgesic doses. A series of three cases is presented to illustrate this point.
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