Complex regional pain syndrome: are there distinct subtypes and sequential stages of the syndrome?

@article{Bruehl2002ComplexRP,
  title={Complex regional pain syndrome: are there distinct subtypes and sequential stages of the syndrome?},
  author={Stephen Bruehl and Robert Norman Harden and Bradley S Galer and Samuel Saltz and Miroslav Backonja and Michael Stanton‐Hicks},
  journal={Pain},
  year={2002},
  volume={95},
  pages={119-124}
}
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