Using skin surface temperature to differentiate between complex regional pain syndrome type 1 patients after a fracture and control patients with various complaints after a fracture

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 270-277

  Niehof, Sjoerd P ^a   Beerthuizen, Annemerle ^a   Huygen, Frank J P M ^a   Zijlstra, Freek J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOOT; FRACTURE; HAND; HUMAN; LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADULT; AGED; CASTS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 37549045636     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000289635.95869.70     Document Type: Article

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