The McGill Pain Questionnaire in Patients with TMJ Pain and with Facial Pain as a Somatoform Disorder

Cranio - Journal of Craniomandibular and Sleep Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 249-256

  Mongini, Franco ^a,b,c   Italiano, Marco ^a   Raviola, Fabio ^a   Mossolov, Alexei ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e Moscow State Regional University   (Russian Federation)

^f Research Department ITERA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS;

EID: 0034303142     PISSN: 08869634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08869634.2000.11746138     Document Type: Article

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