Vitamin C and Its Emerging Role in Pain Management: Beneficial Effects in Pain Conditions Besides Post Herpetic Neuralgia
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Vitamin C and Its Emerging Role in Pain Management: Beneficial Effects in Pain Conditions Besides Post Herpetic Neuralgia
Received April 19, 2012. Revised May 15, 2012. Accepted May 29, 2012. Correspondence to: Shailendra Kapoor, MD Mechanicsville, VA, USA Tel: +1-8656785678, Fax: +1-8656071014, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unre...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Pain
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2005-9159,2093-0569
DOI: 10.3344/kjp.2012.25.3.200