Acute Pain
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 57-63 , June 2009

Preoperative gabapentin in patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty

Received 5 November 2008 ,Revised 9 February 2009 ,Accepted 16 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2009.03.002

Acute Pain
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 57-63 , June 2009

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