Persistent postsurgical pain-How can we make progress?

Affiliations

Henrik Kehlet. Can J Pain. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 30;3(2):3-4.

doi: 10.1080/24740527.2019.1627849. eCollection 2019.

¹ Section of Surgical Pathophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

H. Kehlet is a Scientific Advisory Board Member at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (IPRC).

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