Post-mastectomy pain found to be common: treatment options sparse, but growing.
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Although its sharp stabs of pain superimposed on feelings of an aching, burning tightness can also occur after lumpectomy, post-mastectomy pain syndromeusually abbreviated as PMPis the phenomenon's official name. And although it can make an agony of the lightest touch or slightest movement, there are clinicians who doubt that the phenomenon exists. Christine Miaskowski, Ph.D., who chairs the Department of Physiological
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute
دوره 90 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998