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Relationship of Pain Quality Descriptors and Quantitative Sensory Testing: Sickle Cell Disease.
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Chronic pain in adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) may be the result of altered processing in the central nervous system as indicated by quantitative sensory testing (QST). Sensory pain quality descriptors on the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) are indicators of typical or altered pain mechanisms but have not been validated with QST-derived classifications.