Disrupted central somatosensory processing in CRPS: A unique characteristic of the syndrome?

Pain

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 3-5

  Mailis Gagnon, Angela ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGOMETRY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPESTHESIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EXTREMITIES; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPESTHESIA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; SCALP; SENSATION; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33744505942     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.04.002     Document Type: Editorial

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