title: [Visceral pain--a neglected phenomenon in pain therapy and research?].
abstract: The topic "visceral pain"is hardly covered in basic research and pain therapy. After low back pain, headache and musculosceletal pain is abdominal pain the 4th frequent chronic pain syndrome in the general population with considerable direct and indirect disease related costs.An interdisciplinary multimodal treatment of chronic abdominal pain syndromes is rarely practiced in clinical care.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik I des Klinikums Saarbrücken, Germany. w.haeuser@klinikum-saarbrueckn.de
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Häuser
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lempa
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jänig
mesh_terms: D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D059408:Pain Management; D014781:Viscera