Overview
- A comprehensive overview of chronic abdominal pain characteristics and mechanisms
- Features state-of- the-art interventional and non-interventional therapeutic approaches
- Authored by a team of world-renowned physicians and researchers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Chronic Abdominal Pain is a comprehensive resource focused on the management of chronic abdominal pain. Chapters begin with an overview of pain generation, adaptive mechanisms and various diagnostic approaches. A complete range of novel, conservative, minimally invasive and surgical therapeutic options and their proper selection are then discussed along with evidence-based and practical clinical aspects of patient care. Authored by a team of world-renowned physicians and researchers, this definitive guide provides novel algorithms for contemporary treatment of chronic abdominal pain, giving pain medicine clinicians and practitioners the knowledge needed to assess and treat patients with abdominal pain.
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Leonardo Kapural, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology,
Wake Forest University, School of Medicine
Carolinas Pain Institute and Clinical Research Center
Winston-Salem, NC
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chronic Abdominal Pain
Book Subtitle: An Evidence-Based, Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management
Editors: Leonardo Kapural
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1992-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1991-8Published: 04 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5255-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1992-5Published: 03 December 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 262
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, Gastroenterology, Urology, Gynecology