Current diagnosis and therapy of complex regional pain syndrome: Refining diagnostic criteria and therapeutic options

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 643-651

  Burton, Allen W ^a   Bruehl, Stephen ^b   Harden, R Norman ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Causalgia; Chronic pain; Complex regional pain syndrome; Reflex sympathetic dystrophy; Sympathetic pain syndromes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMANTADINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCITONIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CAPSAICIN; CLONIDINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; OPIATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DESENSITIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPATHECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAUSALGIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 26444462460     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.5.5.643     Document Type: Review

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