Treatment of CRPS with ECT

Pain Physician

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 573-578

  Wolanin, Marie Wojcik ^a   Gulevski, Vasko ^a   Schwartzman, Robert J ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Limpedance; Posture change; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CELECOXIB; CLONAZEPAM; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; LITHIUM; MACROGOL 3350; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PAROXETINE; QUETIAPINE; ROFECOXIB; STEROID; TEGASEROD; TOPIRAMATE; VENLAFAXINE; ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE;

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERHIDROSIS; IRRITABLE COLON; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; NECK PAIN; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RATING SCALE; STOMACH PARESIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WRIST FRACTURE;

ADULT; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547849454     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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