Hyperalgesia in a human model of acute inflammatory pain: A methodological study

Pain

Volumn 74, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 139-151

  Pedersen, Juri L ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute pain; Burn injury; Hyperalgesia; Inflammatory pain; Psychophysics; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARM; BURNS; ERYTHEMA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; HYPESTHESIA; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031939898     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00160-7     Document Type: Article

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