Test-retest agreement and reliability of quantitative sensory testing 1 year after breast cancer surgery

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 393-403

  Andersen, Kenneth Geving ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^a   Aasvang, Eske Kvanner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

agreement; breast cancer; neuropathy; postoperative pain; quantitative sensory testing; reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEAT PAIN THRESHOLD; HUMAN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PINPRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THERMAL STIMULUS TEST; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT ANALYSIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSATION; STATISTICS; STIMULATION;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84928272392     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000136     Document Type: Article

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