Skeletal muscle MRI in complex regional pain syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 209-212

  Nishida, Yoichiro ^a   Saito, Yuki ^a   Yokota, Takanori ^a   Kanda, Takashi ^a,b   Mizusawa, Hidehiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute phase; Complex regional pain syndrome; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microangiopathy; Muscle; Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIMB PAIN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK;

ADULT; AGED; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61749092860     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1611     Document Type: Article

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