Complex regional pain syndrome (reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia): Management with the calcium channel blocker nifedipine and/or the α-sympathetic blocker phenoxybenzamine in 59 patients

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-30

  Muizelaar, J Paul ^a   Kleyer, Mariska ^a   Hertogs, Ingrid A M ^a   DeLange, Dominique C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex regional pain syndrome; Nifedipine; Phenoxybenzamine; Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; PHENOXYBENZAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSALGIA; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; VERTIGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CAUSALGIA; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NIFEDIPINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030891726     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(96)00594-X     Document Type: Article

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