Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Secondary to Leprosy

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1067-1071

  Ghia, Deepti ^a   Gadkari, Reshma ^a   Nayak, Chitra ^a  

^a BYL NAIR CHARITABLE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Brachial plexopathy; CRPS; Leprosy; Neuropathy; Sympathetic block

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LEPROSTATIC AGENT; ROPIVACAINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE SENSATION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND PARESTHESIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPROSY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MONONEUROPATHY MULTIPLEX; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NEURITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN REDNESS; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; SWELLING; TOUCH; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865306000     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2012.01426.x     Document Type: Article

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