Use of opioids as one of the causes of fever in patients with advanced cancer

Affiliations

¹ 1 Department of Palliative Care, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
² 2 Department of Pain Treatment and Palliative Care, Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Cracow, Poland.
³ 3 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Cracow, Poland.
⁴ 4 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Cracow, Poland.
⁵ 5 Pain Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical centre for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland.

Michał Graczyk et al. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2017 Mar.

. 2017 Mar;30(1):98-104.

doi: 10.1177/0394632016686088. Epub 2017 Jan 6.

¹ 1 Department of Palliative Care, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
² 2 Department of Pain Treatment and Palliative Care, Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Cracow, Poland.
³ 3 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Cracow, Poland.
⁴ 4 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Cracow, Poland.
⁵ 5 Pain Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical centre for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland.

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Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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