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Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 239-243 , 15 November 2008

I can’t find it! Distorted body image and tactile dysfunction in patients with chronic back pain

Received 3 July 2008 ,Revised 26 July 2008 ,Accepted 1 August 2008.

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PII: S0304-3959(08)00444-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.08.001

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