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The Pain Clinic

Volume 9, No. 3, pp. 241--362, 1996

Editorial remark
241

Editorial

Marihuana, soft drug or medicine
M. P. Neeleman 243

Letter to the editor

Pain in leak-less empyema after lung resection. Report on five cases
V. Bachiocco and R. Bragaglia 249

Original articles

Analysis of the underlying mechanism of sympathetically maintained pain in back and leg due to lumbar impairment: Pain-relieving effect of lumbar chemical sympathectomy
H. Takahashi, H. Yanagida and S. Morita 251

Percutaneous intradiscal radio-frequency thermocoagulation in chronic non-specific low back pain
M. van Kleef, G. A. M. Barendse, J. T. Wilmink, R. Lousberg, S. K. Bulstra, W. E. J. Weber and M. E. Sluijter 259

Percutaneous radiofrequency thermocoagulation of the Gasserian ganglion for severe trigeminal neuralgia
D. Buggy, J. Keaveny and L. Browne 269

Patterns of cervical zygapophyseal joint pain
S. Fukui, K. Ohseto, M. Shiotani, S. Arimura, K. Ohno, H. Karasawa, Y. Naganuma, Y. Yasumasa, H. Hajiri and M. Ozawa 275

Cervical zygapophyseal joint pain patterns --- Pain distribution determined by electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal rami
S. Fukui, K. Ohseto, M. Shiotani, S. Arimura, K. Ohno, H. Karasawa, Y. Naganuma and M. Takushima 285

Pain-specific emotional distress and self-reported sleep difficulties in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain
G. J. G. Asmundson, C. J. Hale and T. Hadjistavropoulos 295

Pain evaluation in elderly patients after orthopaedic surgery under regional anaesthesia
D. Fernández-Galinski, M. M. Puig, M. Rué, M. Bernaus, M. V. Moral, F. Bosch and J. E. Baños 303

The McGill Pain Questionnaire as an exploratory instrument in discriminant analyses of pain description --- limitations in a pain clinic
M. I. Bennett 311

Changes in weather affect perception of pain in chronic pain patients. (The impact of the various weather factors on pain perception varies from individual to individual)
T. Koyama, K. Nakao, J. Takaishi, M. Shibata, T. Mashimo and I. Yoshiya 319

Preoperative low dose ketamine reduces serum interleukin-6 response after abdominal hysterectomy
L. Roytblat, A. Roy-Shapira, L. Greemberg, A. Korotkoruchko, . Schwartz, J. Peizer and A. Douvdevani 327

Case reports

A difficult pain problem: use of intrathecal ketamine
A. C. Garry and K. H. Simpson 335

A case of painful post-polio syndrome
M. Zoppi, G. P. Novelli and C. Angelini 343

Original experimental article

The antinociceptive effects of fluoxetine
S. Schreiber, M. M. Backer, R. Weizman and C. G. Pick 349

In the beginning

Cancer pain treatment --- The Warsaw model
J. Jarosz and M. Hilgier 357

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