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Volume 145, Issue 1 , Page 1 , September 2009

Descending pain control and Fibromyalgia syndrome

Received 5 June 2009 ,Accepted 8 June 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00337-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.033

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