Pain - Etiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Subcutaneous anti-D treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in children.

13 Dec 2009 We investigated the effect of subcutaneous anti-D IgG as platelet enhancing therapy in children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Twenty-three children were treated with subcutaneous anti-D 50 microg/kg. The median platelet count ... Read more...

Management of osteoblastoma and osteoid osteoma of the spine in childhood.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECT: Osteoid osteomas and osteoblastoma of the spine are rare lesions in childhood, and management strategies have changed. The authors reviewed their recent experience with these 2 types of lesions to elucidate current treatment modalities and ... Read more...

Association of depression and pain interference with disease-management self-efficacy in community-dwelling individuals with spinal cord injury.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine factors influencing disease-management self-efficacy in individuals with spinal cord injury. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS: Forty-nine community-dwelling individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (mean ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Subcutaneous anti-D treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in children. 13 Dec 2009
• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis. 4 Nov 2009
• Images in clinical medicine. Peripartum diastasis of the symphysis pubis. 3 Nov 2009
• Management of osteoblastoma and osteoid osteoma of the spine in childhood. 30 Oct 2009
• Association of depression and pain interference with disease-management self-efficacy in community-dwelling individuals with spinal cord injury. 30 Oct 2009
• Exaggerated response of a vasopressin-enhanced green fluorescent protein transgene to nociceptive stimulation in the rat. 19 Oct 2009
• Characteristics of children enrolled in treatment trials for NF1-related plexiform neurofibromas. 18 Oct 2009
• Foot pain: is current or past shoewear a factor? 13 Oct 2009
• Painful oral ulcerations in a 51-year-old woman. 13 Oct 2009
• Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital. 8 Oct 2009
• Cervicogenic headache: an assessment of the evidence on clinical diagnosis, invasive tests, and treatment. 29 Sep 2009
• Cervicogenic headache: a pain in the neck for some neurologists? 29 Sep 2009
• The purview of multifascicle ulnar nerves in cubital tunnel syndrome: single-case sonographic observation. 29 Sep 2009
• Elicitability of muscle cramps in different leg and foot muscles. 29 Sep 2009
• Perceived pain and temporomandibular disorders in neuromuscular diseases. 29 Sep 2009
• Effect of electrode location on surface electromyography changes due to eccentric elbow flexor exercise. 29 Sep 2009
• Differences in post-inflammatory hypersensitivity between splanchnic and pelvic afferents: mechanisms and implications for human disease. 29 Sep 2009
• Proposed FDA rules on painkillers in U.S. Rile cancer community. 29 Sep 2009
• StatBite: cancer pain. 29 Sep 2009
• Adductor-related groin pain in recreational athletes: role of the adductor enthesis, magnetic resonance imaging, and entheseal pubic cleft injections. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Pain'

Definition: An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.

Descriptor UI: D010146

Alternative terms: Pain; Pain, Burning; Burning Pain; Burning Pains; Pains, Burning; Suffering, Physical; Physical Suffering; Physical Sufferings; Sufferings, Physical; Pain, Migratory; Migratory Pain; Migratory Pains; Pains, Migratory; Pain, Radiating; Pains, Radiating; Radiating Pain; Radiating Pains; Pain, Splitting; Pains, Splitting; Splitting Pain; Splitting Pains; Ache; Aches; Pain, Crushing; Crushing Pain; Crushing Pains; Pains, Crushing;

Related Mesh Headings: Analgesia; Pain Insensitivity, Congenital; Analgesics; Hyperalgesia; Palliative Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.617; C23.888.592.612; C23.888.646; F02.830.816.444; G11.561.600.810.444;

Technical Notes: general; prefer specific precoordinated locational pain terms, like ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHEST PAIN, etc.; / diag: consider also PAIN MEASUREMENT but PAIN / diag is probably PAIN / etiol; / ther: consider also PALLIATIVE CARE ( = pain relief without cure); / physiopathol: PAIN THRESHOLD is also available; chronic pain = PAIN (IM) + CHRONIC DISEASE (NIM): do not equate with PAIN, INTRACTABLE; congenital absence of pain = PAIN INSENSITIVITY, CONGENITAL