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[Psychophysiology of visceral pain]

B Horing1, P Enck

  • 1Abteilung Innere Medizin VI, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Frondsbergstr. 23, 72076, Tübingen, Deutschland.

Schmerz (Berlin, Germany)
|June 7, 2014
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