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A descriptive case series: oral transmucosal fentanyl use in patients with noncancerous pain.

Author(s): Guarino AH, Myers J, Cornell ME

Affiliation(s): Washington University, Department of Anesthesiology, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Publication date & source: 2006-03, J Opioid Manag., 2(2):81-7.

Transmucosal fentanyl is indicated for patients with cancer who are opioid tolerant, but it is also used for the treatment of noncancerous pain. The following is a survey study of the use of transmucosal fentanyl in 29 patients with noncancerous pain in an academic, community-based pain management practice. Transmucosal fentanyl was found to be safe and efficacious in the patients studied.

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