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Volume 143, Issue 3 , Pages 165-166 , June 2009

Pathophysiology of MS-related trigeminal neuralgia

Received 23 February 2009 ,Accepted 16 March 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00187-0

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.03.019

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