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Volume 141, Issue 1 , Pages 10-13 , January 2009

Vitamin D and chronic pain

Received 22 September 2008 ,Revised 12 November 2008 ,Accepted 13 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.11.010

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