Somatosensory profiles but not numbers of somatosensory abnormalities of neuropathic pain patients correspond with neuropathic pain grading

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Konopka, Karl Heinz ^a   Harbers, Marten ^a   Houghton, Andrea ^b   Kortekaas, Rudie ^a   van Vliet, Andre ^c   Timmerman, Wia ^c   den Boer, Johan A ^a   Struys, Michel M R F ^a   van Wijhe, Marten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c PRA Health Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865190330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043526     Document Type: Article

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