Differential effects of surgical sympathetic block on sudomotor and vasoconstrictor function

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1770-1776

  Schick, C H ^a   Fronek, K ^a   Held, A ^a   Birklein, F ^b   Hohenberger, W ^a   Schmelz, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; KINETICS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SUDOMETRY; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; VASOCONSTRICTION; WARMING;

EID: 0037777722     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000067995.13410.47     Document Type: Article

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