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Central Pain Syndromes

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The most common clinical central pain syndromes are central post-stroke pain, multiple sclerosis-related pain, and spinal cord injury-related pain. These conditions are often difficult to treat are discussed individually below.

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  1. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Ezekiel Fink MD

  2. Department of Neurology, UCLA/David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ezekiel Fink MD

  3. Department of Neurology, Pain Management, and Brain Injury Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Ezekiel Fink MD

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Fink, E. (2019). Central Pain Syndromes. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_197

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