Phantom limb phenomena in cancer amputees

Pain Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-256

  Probstner, Danièlle ^b   Thuler, Luiz Claudio Santos ^a,c   Ishikawa, Neli Muraki ^b   Alvarenga, Regina Maria Papais ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO GAFFRÉE E GUINLE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amputees; Cancer; Incidence; Phantom pain; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CODEINE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHONDROSARCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB PAIN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PAIN; PHANTOM PAIN; PHANTOM SENSATION; PREVALENCE; SKIN CANCER; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHANTOM LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHANTOM LIMB; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954846552     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2009.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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