Chronic Postsurgical Pain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mick, Gérard (Editor), Guastella, Virginie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosurgery.; Pain medicine.; Surgery.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pain Medicine.; Surgical Oncology.

Primum non nocere… The fact that a surgical procedure can leave any kind of pain casts a shadow over this tenet, which is seen as the basis of medical practice and anchor of its principle ethic… It is all the more surprising in that medicine has only paid attention to this paradoxical chronic pain s...