What happens when cutaneous nerves are injured during venipuncture?

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 415-417

  Horowitz, Steven H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUSALGIA; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE II; EDITORIAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE INJURY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PARESTHESIA; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN NERVE; SKIN TINGLING; VEIN PUNCTURE;

HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHLEBOTOMY;

EID: 15344346893     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20287     Document Type: Editorial

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