Cutaneous innervation in man before and after lumbar sympathectomy: Evidence for interruption of both sensory and vasomotor nerve fibres

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 14-18

  Coventry, Brendon J ^a   Walsh, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; Ischaemic arterial disease; Lumbar; Neuropeptide Y; Neuropeptides; Peripheral vascular disease; Substance P; Sympathectomy; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIA; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LUMBAR SYMPATHECTOMY; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN NERVE;

AGED; AMPUTATION; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PAIN; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; SKIN; SYMPATHECTOMY; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0037284152     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2003.02618.x     Document Type: Article

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