Acute Pain
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 1-3 , May 2005

Sickle cell pain management meets technology: Everybody wins

  • Jason Sawyer

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Received 1 March 2005 ,Accepted 16 March 2005.

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PII: S1366-0071(05)00008-2

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2005.03.003

Acute Pain
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 1-3 , May 2005

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