Spinal Opiate Analgesia and Facial Pruritus: a Neural Theory

Overview

Journal Postgrad Med J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1982 Sep 1

PMID 6755416

Citations 5

Authors

P V Scott

H B Fischer

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