Postsurgical Pain Syndromes

Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 194-203

  Perkins, Fred ^a   Ballantyne, Jane ^b  

^a United States Department of Veteran Affairs   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early postoperative pain and postoperative opioid consumption; Functional polymorphisms of catecholamine O methyltransferase (COMT) changes in pain sensitivity; Pain sensitivity; Persistent pain following thoracotomy; Postoperative radiation and chemotherapy; Postsurgical pain syndromes; Sentinel node compared to primary axillary dissection; Timing of postsurgical pain and fragmented nature of postsurgical followup

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886068570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314380.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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