Complex regional pain syndrome: What's in a name?

Journal of Pain

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-12

  Coderre, Terence J ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

arterial vasospasm; Complex regional pain syndrome; CRPS; etiology; ischemia; nomenclature; pathophysiology; reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VASOSPASM;

COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 78650700234     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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