Epidural block with mepivacaine before surgery reduces long-term post-thoracotomy pain

Evidence for a central component of post-injury pain hypersensitivity

Clifford J. Woolf · Nature · 1983 · 2.1K citations

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Acute Pain after Thoracic Surgery Predicts Long-Term Post-Thoracotomy Pain

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Medicine, Anesthesiology, Surgery +16

Phantom limb pain in amputees during the first 12 months following limb amputation, after preoperative lumbar epidural blockade

Søren Bach, M. F. Noreng, Niels U. Tjéllden · Pain · 1988 · 565 citations

Medicine, Anesthesiology, Surgery +17

Subcutaneous formalin-induced activity of dorsal horn neurones in the rat: differential response to an intrathecal opiate administered pre or post formalin

Anthony H. Dickenson, Ann F. Sullivan · Pain · 1987 · 544 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Preemptive Analgesia Clinical Evidence of Neuroplasticity Contributing to Postoperative Pain

Joel Katz, Brian P. Kavanagh, Alan N. Sandler et al. · Anesthesiology · 1992 · 493 citations · Full text

Medicine, Anesthesiology, Surgery +16