Breakthrough Pain
"Breakthrough Pain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Acute pain that comes on rapidly despite the use of pain medication.
| Descriptor ID |
D059390
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.617.178 C23.888.646.182 F02.830.816.131 G11.561.600.810.444.393
|
| Concept/Terms |
Breakthrough Pain- Breakthrough Pain
- Breakthrough Pains
- Pains, Breakthrough
- Pain, Breakthrough
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Breakthrough Pain".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Breakthrough Pain".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Breakthrough Pain" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Breakthrough Pain" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Breakthrough Pain" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.