Sudomotor function in sympathetic reflex dystrophy

Pain

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 49-54

  Birklein, F ^a   Sittl, R ^b   Spitzer, A ^a   Claus, D ^a   Neundorfer B ^a   Handwerker, H O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Quantitative sudomotor axon reflex test; Reflex sympathetic dystrophy; Thermography; Thermoregulatory sweating

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION;

AXONS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; REFLEX; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEAT GLANDS; SWEATING;

EID: 0031044602     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(96)03242-3     Document Type: Article

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