Self-mutilation in patients after nerve injury may not be due to deafferentation pain: A case report

Pain Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1644-1648

  Kachramanoglou, Carolina ^a   Carlstedt, Thomas ^b   Koltzenburg, Martin ^a   Choi, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Deafferentation pain; Nerve avulsion; Self mutilation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; AVULSION INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; DEAFFERENTATION PAIN; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FINGER INJURY; FOLLOW UP; GLOVE; HABIT; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MALE; MONOPLEGIA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THUMB INJURY; VENTRAL ROOT;

EID: 81855194124     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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