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Chronic Pain Syndromes of the Central Nervous System 8A Phantom and Stump Pain

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Of all the neuropathic pain syndromes, phantom pain has most captured the imagination. The first description dates back to Ambroise Paré 1 with Charles Bell describing phantom pain in detail in 1830, 2 even explaining it as a memory for pain; Weir Mitchell’s early descriptions3 are classic. In fact some of the fascination that pain associated with amputation has engendered arises from a number of features not shared with other neuropathic pain syndromes. Several recent reviews are of general interest.4–9

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Tasker, R.R. (1997). Chronic Pain Syndromes of the Central Nervous System 8A Phantom and Stump Pain. In: North, R.B., Levy, R.M. (eds) Neurosurgical Management of Pain. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1938-5_10

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