Pain in β-thalassemia major patients: an important yet neglected issue
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Received June 16, 2017. Revised August 11, 2017. Accepted September 27, 2017. Correspondence to: Hossein Karimi Moonaghi School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Ebne-Sina Street, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran Tel: +98-51-3851-1511, Fax: +98-51-3859-07313, 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/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright c The Korean Pain Society, 2018 LETTERS TO EDITOR
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