The Journal of Pain
Volume 10, Issue 6 , Pages 628-636, June 2009

Enhanced Presurgical Pain Temporal Summation Response Predicts Post-Thoracotomy Pain Intensity During the Acute Postoperative Phase

  • Irit Weissman-Fogel

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Yelena Granovsky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion
    • ,
  • Yonathan Crispel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion
    • ,
  • Alon Ben-Nun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine, Technion
    • ,
  • Lael Anson Best

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine, Technion
    • ,
  • David Yarnitsky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion
    • ,
  • Michal Granot

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dr Michal Granot, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31905, Haifa, Israel.

Received 29 July 2008; received in revised form 25 November 2008; accepted 23 December 2008. published online 24 April 2009.

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 Supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 207/05).

PII: S1526-5900(09)00011-X

doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2008.12.009

The Journal of Pain
Volume 10, Issue 6 , Pages 628-636, June 2009

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