TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Antiepileptics for Pain A1 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A1 - Ho, Charles C. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Wootton, R. Joshua A2 - Warfield, Carol A. Y1 - 2016 N1 - T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e AB - Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have been used in the treatment of chronic pain syndromes for more than 50 years.1-4 Phenytoin, in particular, has been extensively used for the treatment of neuropathic pain during that time.5-9 Carbamazepine was the first AED used and extensively studied specifically for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.10-12 Since then a variety of neuropathic syndromes have been treated with AEDs, including:Diabetic neuropathyPostherpetic neuralgiaGlossopharyngeal neuralgiaPostsympathectomy neuralgiaPostthoracotomy pain syndromes1-4 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131937281 ER -