Treatment of Neuropathic Pain: Historical Aspects
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Treatment of neuropathic pain: historical aspects.
S the earliest descriptions of pain related to injury of the nervous system, it has been recognized that the characteristics of this type of pain differ markedly from those of pain due to nonneural tissue damage. Later, as new analgesics were developed, it became clear that neurogenic pain was very often refractory to these drugs. This brief article considers some historical aspects of the deve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pain Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1526-2375,1526-4637
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2004.04018.x