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Michael C Rowbotham1, Ian Gilron, Clara Glazer

  • 1California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada Department of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada Department of Anesthesia, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Pain Research, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London & Pain Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee, Scotland, UK Sutter Health Research and Development, Concord, CA, USA Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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|April 2, 2013
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