Neuropathic pain: an updated grading system for research and clinical practice.

B Finnerup, Nanna; Haroutounian, Simon; Kamerman, Peter; Baron, Ralf; L H Bennett, David; Bouhassira, Didier; Cruccu, Giorgio; Freeman, Roy; Hansson, Per; Nurmikko, Turo; N Raja, Srinivasa; S C Rice, Andrew; Serra, Jordi; H Smith, Blair; Treede, Rolf-Detlef; S Jensen, Troels

doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000492

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Neuropathic pain: an updated grading system for research and clinical practice.

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Authors:

Nanna B Finnerup

Simon Haroutounian

Peter Kamerman

Abstract

The redefinition of neuropathic pain as "pain arising as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system," which was suggested by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Special Interest Group on Neuropathic Pain (NeuPSIG) in 2008, has been widely ac...

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