Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
Cited by 352

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 2 of the 2 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

The effect of ketamine on phantom pain: a central neuropathic disorder maintained by peripheral input

Nikolajsen, Lone, Hansen, Carsten L., Nielsen, Jesper, Keller, Johnny, Arendt-Nielsen, Lars, Jensen, Troels S.·1996·Pain

Abstract

Hyperactivity of N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors may be one of the factors in the maintenance of persistent stump and phantom limb pain. Ketamine (bolus at 0.1 mg/kg/5 min followed by an infusion of 7 micrograms/kg/min) was administered intravenously to 11 patients with established stump and phantom limb pain in a double-blind saline-controlled study. All 11 patients responded with a decrease in the rating of stump and phantom limb pain assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS) and McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ). Ketamine increased pressure-pain thresholds significantly. Wind-up like pain (pain evoked by repeatedly tapping the dysaesthetic skin area) was reduced significantly by ketamine. In contrast, no effect was seen on pain evoked by repeated thermal stimuli. Side effects were observed in nine patients. The results support the notion that stump and phantom pain are generated by activity in afferent fibres activated by mechanical but not by thermal stimuli and that the NMDA receptor is involved in the maintenance of postamputation pain states. NMDA receptor antagonists may have a potential in the treatment of stump and phantom limb pain.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03080-1

Cites

2 of 2 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cited by

See all 352

Metadata

Authors
Nikolajsen, L., Hansen, C. L., Nielsen, J., Keller, J., Arendt-Nielsen, L., & Jensen, T. S.
Venue
Pain
Published
1996-09
Volume
67
Issue
1
Pages
69-77
ISSN
0304-3959 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2059441972
Cited by
352
References
2
FWCI
16.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The effect of ketamine on phantom pain: a central neuropathic disorder maintained by peripheral input. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/0304-3959(96)03080-1
The paper
Nikolajsen, L., Hansen, C. L., Nielsen, J., Keller, J., Arendt-Nielsen, L., & Jensen, T. S. (1996). The effect of ketamine on phantom pain: a central neuropathic disorder maintained by peripheral input. Pain. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(96)03080-1

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.