Pain Flare-Effect Prophylaxis With Corticosteroids on Bone Radiotherapy Treatment: A Systematic Review.
Carles FabregatSonia AlmendrosArturo Navarro-MartinJesús GonzalezPublished in: Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain (2019)
Overall, the findings of this systematic review indicate that glucocorticoids appear to be an effective prophylactic treatment to prevent pain flare in patients undergoing radiotherapy for bone metastases. New CT are needed to confirm these results and to determine the optimal dose of dexamethasone.
Keyphrases
- postoperative pain
- systematic review
- patients undergoing
- early stage
- radiation therapy
- radiation induced
- chronic pain
- locally advanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- randomized controlled trial
- squamous cell carcinoma
- magnetic resonance
- pain management
- spinal cord injury
- spinal cord
- high dose
- neuropathic pain
- positron emission tomography