Post mastectomy pain syndrome management

Current Surgery Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Lancaster, Rachael B ^a   Balkin, Daniel ^b   Esserman, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chronic breast pain; Chronic breast pain treatment; PMPS; Post mastectomy pain syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 85054648819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21674817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40137-016-0133-6     Document Type: Article

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