A case of neuropathic brachioradial pruritus caused by cervical disc herniation

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 338-342

  Binder, Andreas ^a   Fölster Holst, Regina ^a   Sahan, Gülcan ^a   Koroschetz, Jana ^a   Stengel, Maike ^a   Maximilian Mehdorn, H ^a   Schwarz, Thomas ^a   Baron, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC NEUROPATHY; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLD EXPOSURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE ROOT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHIC BRACHIORADIAL PRURITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDROSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN BIOPSY; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ARM; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS; RADICULOPATHY;

EID: 44949183600     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0807     Document Type: Article

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