Limb amputations in fixed dystonia: A form of body integrity identity disorder?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1410-1414

  Edwards, Mark J ^a   Alonso Canovas, Araceli ^a   Schrag, Arnette ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^b   Thompson, Philip D ^c   Bhatia, Kailash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amputation; Chronic regional pain syndrome; Fixed dystonia; Psychogenic

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BACLOFEN; BENZODIAZEPINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BODY INTEGRITY IDENTITY DISORDER; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEPRESSION; DETERIORATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSTONIA; EATING DISORDER; EPILEPSY; FALLING; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOOT INJURY; FOOT PAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPATHECTOMY; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREMOR; TUBE FEEDING; URINARY CATHETER; URINE RETENTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHEELCHAIR; WRIST FRACTURE;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSTONIA; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79960618234     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23671     Document Type: Article

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