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Volume 150, Issue 3 , Pages 568-572 , September 2010

Functional abdominal pain in childhood and adolescence increases risk for chronic pain in adulthood

  • Lynn S. Walker

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, USA
    • Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Nashville, TN, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Division of Adolescent Medicine and Behavioral Science, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt, 11128 Doctor’s Office Tower, Nashville, TN 37232-9060, USA. Tel.: +1 615 936 8006; fax: +1 615 936 0202.
    • ,
  • Christine M. Dengler-Crish

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, USA
    • Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Nashville, TN, USA
    • ,
  • Sara Rippel

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, USA
    • ,
  • Stephen Bruehl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

Received 2 December 2009 ,Revised 10 May 2010 ,Accepted 17 June 2010.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00380-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.06.018

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