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Goran Pavlaković1,2,3,4, Ina Klinke1,2,3,4, Helena Pavlaković2

  • 1Center for Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University Clinic Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, D-37099 Göttingen, Germany.

Muscle & Nerve
|October 22, 2008
PubMed
Summary

This study investigated thermode pressure effects on quantitative sensory testing (QST). Results show thermode pressure does not significantly impact thermal sensory threshold measurements or their reproducibility.

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