Sympathetic sweat responses and skin vasomotor reflexes in carpal tunnel syndrome

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 691-695

  Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a   Tamura, Noriko ^a   Yamanaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Misawa, Sonoko ^a   Isose, Sagiri ^a   Bae, Jong Seok ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a   Asahina, Masato ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic function; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Skin vasomotor reflex; Sympathetic sweat response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONMYELINATED NERVE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; THENAR; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 46949094771     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.04.004     Document Type: Article

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