Sensory profiles: A new strategy for selecting patients in treatment trials for neuropathic pain

Pain

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 5-6

  Cruccu, G ^a,b   Truini, A ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNING SENSATION; DEMYELINATION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SENSATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 70349776079     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.07.004     Document Type: Editorial

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