Usefulness and limitations of quantitative sensory testing: clinical and research application in neuropathic pain states

Affiliations

¹ Dept. of Neurosurgery, Pain Center, Karolinska University Hospital and Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Section of Clinical Pain research, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden Department of Neurology H6/570, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI 53792, USA INSERM U-792, CHU Ambroise Pare, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt F-92100, France Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles F-78035, France.

Review

Per Hansson et al. Pain. 2007 Jun.

. 2007 Jun;129(3):256-259.

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.03.030. Epub 2007 Apr 23.

¹ Dept. of Neurosurgery, Pain Center, Karolinska University Hospital and Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Section of Clinical Pain research, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden Department of Neurology H6/570, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI 53792, USA INSERM U-792, CHU Ambroise Pare, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt F-92100, France Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles F-78035, France.

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