Phantom-limb pain: Characteristics, causes, and treatment

Lancet Neurology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 182-189

  Flor, Herta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MEMANTINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AMPUTATION; ANALGESIA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; COMPUTER MODEL; CORDOTOMY; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MACACA; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEMORY; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE BLOCK; NEURECTOMY; NEUROMA; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETICULAR FORMATION; REVIEW; RHIZOTOMY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; THALAMUS; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; AGNOSIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN;

HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PHANTOM LIMB;

EID: 0038140079     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(02)00074-1     Document Type: Review

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