Chronic pain in land mine accident survivors in Cambodia and Kurdistan

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1813-1816

  Husum, Hans ^a   Resell, Kirsten ^a   Vorren, Gyri ^a   Heng, Yang Van ^b   Murad, Mudhafar ^c   Gilbert, Mads ^a   Wisborg, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Trauma Care Foundation   (Cambodia)

^c Trauma Care Foundation   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Chronic pain; Land mine injuries; Northern Iraq; Phantom limb pain

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; INJURY; LANDMINE;

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSON; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INJURY; IRAQ; LIMB PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTEES; BLAST INJURIES; CAMBODIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; IRAQ; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM LIMB; RURAL HEALTH; SURVIVORS; WAR;

CAMBODIA; IRAQ;

EID: 0036843094     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00315-X     Document Type: Article

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