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Across- and within-session variability of ratings of painful contact heat stimuli

  • Raimi L. Quiton

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 20 Penn Street, Room S251, Health Sciences Facility 2, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Tel.: +1 410 706 7307; fax: +1 410 706 2512.
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  • Joel D. Greenspan

Received 12 March 2007 ,Revised 17 July 2007 ,Accepted 27 August 2007.

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PII: S0304-3959(07)00470-8

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.08.034

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