A clinically feasible method for the assessment and characterization of pain in patients with chronic pancreatitis

Pain is the primary symptom of chronic pancreatitis (CP), but methods for sensory testing and pain characterization have not previously been validated for clinical use. We present a clinically feasible method for the assessment and characterization of pain mechanisms in patients with CP based on quantitative sensory testing (QST).This was a cross-sectional, multicenter study of 122 control subjects without pancreatic disease and another 60...