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  Bibliography: Suggested Readings in RSD and Pain Management
  Abram, S.E. and Boas, R.A., Sympathetic and visceral nerve blocks. In: J.L. Benumof (ed.), Procedures in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1992, pp 787-806.

Abram, S.E. and Haddox, J.D., Chronic pain management. In: P.G. Barash, B.F. Cullen and R.K. Stoelting (eds.). Clinical Anesthesia, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1992, pp 1579-1607.

American Pain Society, Principles of Analgesic Use in the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Cancer Pain, 3rd. ed. Skokie, IL: American Pain Society, 1992.

Bonica, John J. (ed), The Management of Pain, 2nd. ed. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1990. [editor's note: this is one of the best general references on pain.]

Bonica, J.J. Causalgia and other reflex sympathetic dystrophies. Postgrad Med 53:143-148, 1973.

Blumberg, H. and Jänig, W. Clinical Manifestations of reflex sympathetic dystrophy and sympathetically maintained pain. In: P.D. Wall and R. Melzack (eds), Textbook of Pain, 3rd ed. Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1994, pp 685-698.

Cousins, M.J. and Bridenbaugh, P.O. (eds), Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Pain Management, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1988.

Cousins, M.J. and Mather, L.E., Intrathecal and epidural administration of opioids. Anesthesiology, 61 (1984), 276.

Cousins, M.J. and Bromage, P.R., Epidural neural blockade. In: M.J. Cousins and P.O. Bridenbaugh (eds), Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Pain Management, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1988.

Fields, Howard L., Core Curriculum For Professional Education in Pain. (A Report of the Task Force on Professional Education of the International Association for the Study of Pain.) Seattle: IASP Press, 1995.

Fields, Howard L. and Liebeskind, J.C. (eds.) Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Chronic Pain: New Concepts and Critical Issues. Progress in Pain Research and Management, vol. 1. Seattle: IASP Press, 1994.

Gebhart, G.F., Hammond, D.L., and Jensen, T.S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Pain. Progress in Pain Research and Management, vol. 2. Seattle: IASP Press, 1994.

Hooshmand, Hooshang, Chronic Pain: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Prevention and Management. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-8493-8667-5

Jänig, Wilfrid and Stanton-Hicks, Michael (eds), Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: A Reappraisal (Progress in Pain Research and Management, vol. 6). Seattle: IASP, 1996. ISBN: 0-931092-13-2.

Jänig, Wilfrid and Schmidt, RF (eds), Pathophysiology and Mechanisms of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Weinheim: VCH, 1992.

Merskey, H. and Bogduk, N. (eds.), Classification of Chronic Pain: Descriptions of Chronic Pain Syndromes and Definitions of Pain Terms, 2nd ed. Seattle: IASP Press, 1994.

Mitchell, S.W., On the diseases of nerves resulting from injuries. In: A. Flint (ed.), Contributions Relating to the Causation and Prevention of Disease, and to Camp Disease. United States Sanitary Commission Memoirs. New York: The Commission, 1867.

Paré, A. Of the cure of wounds of the nervous parts. In: The Collected Words of Ambroise Paré. Pound Ridge: Milford House, Book 10: 400-402, 1634 (translated by T. Johnson.)

Portenoy, Russell K. and Kanner, Ronald M. (eds), Pain Management: Theory and Practice. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1996. ISBN: 0-8036-0171-9

Payne, R. Neuropathic pain syndromes, with a special reference to causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Clin. J. Pain, 2 (1986), pp 59-73.

Raj, P. Prithvi (ed.), Pain Medicine: A Comprehensive Review. St. Louis: Mosby, 1996.

Schwartzman, Robert J., Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. Current Opinion in Neurology and Neurosurgery, 1993, 6:531-536. ISSN:0951-7383; ISBN: 1-85922-008-8.

Schwartzman, Robert J., Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Causalgia. Neurologic Clinics, 10:4 (Nov 1992), 953-973. ISSN:0733-8619.

Schwartzman, R.J. and McLellan, J. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, a review. Arch. Neurol, 44 (1987), pp 555-561.

Stanton-Hicks, Michael (ed.), Sympathetic Pain. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

Tollison, C. David, Satterthwaite, John R., Tollison, Joseph W., Handbook of Pain Management, 2nd ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1989. ISBN: 0-683-08332-5.

Wall, P.D. and Melzack, R. (eds.), Textbook of Pain, 3rd ed.. Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1994. [editor's note: this is one of the best general references on pain.]

Warfield, Carol A. (ed.), Principles and Practice of Pain Management. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. ISBN: 0-07-068291-7.

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