Women and visceral pain: Are the reproductive organs the main protagonists?. Mini-review at the occasion of the "European Week Against Pain in Women 2007"

European Journal of Pain

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 257-260

  Giamberardino, Maria Adele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC PAIN; DYSMENORRHEA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE GENITAL PAIN; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; HYPERALGESIA; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOCICEPTION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; VISCERAL PAIN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; DYSMENORRHEA; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; PAIN; PERCEPTION; UROLOGIC DISEASES; VISCERA;

EID: 39149145113     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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