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The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Spinal cord stimulation markedly ameliorated refractory neuropathic pain in transthyretin Val30Met familial amyloid polyneuropathy

Yu MiyazakiDepartment of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Haruki KoikeDepartment of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Akiko AkaneDepartment of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Yasuyuki ShibataDepartment of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Kimitoshi NishiwakiDepartment of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Gen SobueDepartment of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 87-90 | Published online: 19 Apr 2011

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