title: Understanding the psychiatric complications of pain disorders.
abstract: This paper is helpful in evaluating pain disorder from a clinical and psychiatric perspective. Pain is one of the most recurrent symptom in the daily work of any physician. Epidemiology, diagnosis and two case reports are included in this article. Differential diagnoses and psychiatric complications of pain disorder are discussed in order to facilitate the physician to recognize fundamental sequalae of pain disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: D'Alessandro
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis