Warm and cold complex regional pain syndromes: Differences beyond skin temperature?

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 505-512

  Eberle, T ^a   Doganci, B ^a   Kramer H H ^a   Geber, C ^a   Fechir, M ^a   Magerl, W ^b   Birklein, F ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLD SENSATION; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; LIMB PAIN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; COLD; HEAT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION;

COLD TEMPERATURE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 62149135316     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000341930.35494.66     Document Type: Article

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