Response to "A new definition of neuropathic pain"

Anne Louise Oaklander1, Peter R Wilson, Peter A Moskovitz

  • 1Departments of Neurology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurological Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA Bloomsbury, NJ, USA Department of Anesthesiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA Nuvo Research Inc., West Chester, PA, USA Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA The Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA), Milford, CT, USA Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Department of Anesthesiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Pain
|February 21, 2012
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