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Volume 139, Issue 2 , Pages 239-240 , 15 October 2008

RSD/CRPS: The end of the beginning

Received 8 August 2008 ,Accepted 11 August 2008.

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PII: S0304-3959(08)00455-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.08.006

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