Cancer Pain in Children
Cancer Pain in Children Roy L. Kao Lonnie Zeltzer Jacqueline Casillas Overview of Childhood Cancer EPIDEMIOLOGY Worldwide, cancer is diagnosed in approximately 300,000 children under age 20 years each year,…
Cancer-Related Visceral Pain
Cancer-Related Visceral Pain Mary Alice Vijjeswarapu Lalitha Sundararaman Edgar Ross Epidemiology Review In 2004, 1.4 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer. This number equals approximately 4,000 new diagnoses per day….
Cancer-Related Bone Pain
Cancer-Related Bone Pain Edgar Ross Lalitha Sundararaman Mary Alice Vijjeswarapu Epidemiology Review Bone pain due to cancer is caused by primary bone tumors and those malignant diseases that commonly metastasize…
Pain Due to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Pain Due to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Kaj Johansen Thomas Tai Chung George I. Thomas An important and incompletely understood cause of upper extremity pain is subsumed under the rubric of…
Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia
Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia Siddarth Thakur Robert H. Dworkin Rajbala Thakur The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the clinical presentation and management of herpes…
Diagnostic Imaging of Pain
Diagnostic Imaging of Pain Richard F. Cody Jr Asako Miyakoshi Kenneth R. Maravilla Pain is one of the most common indications for clinical imaging examinations. Pain could be an indicator…
The Psychophysiology of Pain
The Psychophysiology of Pain C. Richard Chapman Fadel Zeidan Psychophysiology is a field of study that seeks to relate subjective awareness and behavior to physiologic events.1,2,3 As a field of…
Treatment of Pain in Patients with Addiction
Treatment of Pain in Patients with Addiction Peggy Compton Friedhelm Sandbrink Martin D. Cheatle Substance use disorder (SUD), formerly called substance abuse, dependence, or addiction, is a prevalent chronic disease…
The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Pain Management: Dealing with Difficult Clinician-Patient Interactions
The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Pain Management: Dealing with Difficult Clinician-Patient Interactions Robert N. Jamison Pain management physicians commonly have to deal with doctor-patient conflicts because of the nature of persons…
Central Pain States
Central Pain States Nanna Brix Finnerup Sharona Ben-Haim Central neuropathic pain or central pain is defined as “pain caused by a lesion or disease of the central somatosensory nervous system.”1…
