Evoked potentials and quantitative thermal testing in spinal cord injury patients with chronic neuropathic pain

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 598-604

  Kumru, Hatice ^a   Soler, Dolors ^a   Vidal, Joan ^a   Tormos, Josep Maria ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b   Valls Sole, Josep ^c  

^a University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evoked heat pain; Evoked potential; Neuropathic pain; Quantitative thermal testing; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTACT HEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURY; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMAL STIMULATION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEURALGIA; PAIN PERCEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84856214791     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.07.038     Document Type: Article

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