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Experimental approach to CRPS

  • Wilfrid Jänig

      Affiliations

    • Deparment of Physiology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany
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  • Ralf Baron

      Affiliations

    • Neurological Clinic, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Received 22 December 2003 ,Accepted 5 January 2004.

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☆ See related articles in this issue: Guo et al., Pgs 95 to 107 and Moseley, Pgs 192 to 198.

PII: S0304-3959(04)00019-3

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2004.01.005

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