Persistent postsurgical pain: Evidence from breast cancer surgery, groin hernia repair, and lung cancer surgery

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-29

  Werner, Mads Utke ^a   Bischoff, Joakim Mutahi ^a  

^a International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BREAST CANCER; CATASTROPHIZING TRAIT; CHRONIC PAIN; DEPRESSION; GENETICS; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INGUINAL HERNIA; LUNG CANCER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84902676252     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2014_285     Document Type: Article

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