Thermography imaging during static and controlled thermoregulation in complex regional pain syndrome type 1: Diagnostic value and involvement of the central sympathetic system

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Niehof, Sjoerd P ^a   Huygen, Frank J P M ^a   van der Weerd, Rick W P ^a   Westra, Mirjam ^a   Zijlstra, Freek J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYMPHATETIC VASOCONSTRICTOR ACTIVITY; TEMPERATURE PROVOCATION; VIDEOTHERMOGRAPH;

DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROVOCATION TEST; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; WARMING; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745069652     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-5-30     Document Type: Article

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