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Characteristics of neuropathic pain in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury

Hossein Majedi, Mahdi Safdarian, Marzieh Hajiaghababaei, Alexander R. Vaccaro and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
Neurosciences Journal October 2018, 23 (4) 292-300; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2018.4.20180223
Hossein Majedi
From the Department of Anesthesiology (Majedi), School of Medicine, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (Majedi, Rahimi-Movaghar), Neuroscience Institute, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center (Safdarian, Rahimi-Movaghar), and Psychosomatic Medicine Research Center (Hajiaghababaei), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and from Rothman Institute (Vaccaro), and from Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Vaccaro), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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Mahdi Safdarian
From the Department of Anesthesiology (Majedi), School of Medicine, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (Majedi, Rahimi-Movaghar), Neuroscience Institute, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center (Safdarian, Rahimi-Movaghar), and Psychosomatic Medicine Research Center (Hajiaghababaei), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and from Rothman Institute (Vaccaro), and from Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Vaccaro), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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Marzieh Hajiaghababaei
From the Department of Anesthesiology (Majedi), School of Medicine, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (Majedi, Rahimi-Movaghar), Neuroscience Institute, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center (Safdarian, Rahimi-Movaghar), and Psychosomatic Medicine Research Center (Hajiaghababaei), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and from Rothman Institute (Vaccaro), and from Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Vaccaro), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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Alexander R. Vaccaro
From the Department of Anesthesiology (Majedi), School of Medicine, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (Majedi, Rahimi-Movaghar), Neuroscience Institute, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center (Safdarian, Rahimi-Movaghar), and Psychosomatic Medicine Research Center (Hajiaghababaei), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and from Rothman Institute (Vaccaro), and from Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Vaccaro), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
From the Department of Anesthesiology (Majedi), School of Medicine, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (Majedi, Rahimi-Movaghar), Neuroscience Institute, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center (Safdarian, Rahimi-Movaghar), and Psychosomatic Medicine Research Center (Hajiaghababaei), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and from Rothman Institute (Vaccaro), and from Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (Vaccaro), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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