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
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  • Yelena Granovsky

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine, Technion
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  • 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 ,Revised 25 November 2008 ,Accepted 23 December 2008.

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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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