Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy of the Right Hand following an Acute Traumatic Injury

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy, is a chronic neuropathic pain disorder with significant autonomic features. Recently, it has been recognized that CRPS is not simply a sympathetically mediated peripheral pain condition but rather a disease of the...

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Autores principales: Patel, Pooja, Thadeshwar, Shweta, Maru, Mausam, Desai, Rupak, Fahey, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6783201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31608198
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5363
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author Patel, Pooja
Thadeshwar, Shweta
Maru, Mausam
Desai, Rupak
Fahey, John
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description Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy, is a chronic neuropathic pain disorder with significant autonomic features. Recently, it has been recognized that CRPS is not simply a sympathetically mediated peripheral pain condition but rather a disease of the central nervous system as well. Herein, we present a case of a patient who presented with complaints of severe pain following a traumatic event, severing his extensor tendon of his right fifth finger. 
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spelling pubmed-67832012019-10-11 Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy of the Right Hand following an Acute Traumatic Injury Patel, Pooja Thadeshwar, Shweta Maru, Mausam Desai, Rupak Fahey, John Cureus Family/General Practice Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy, is a chronic neuropathic pain disorder with significant autonomic features. Recently, it has been recognized that CRPS is not simply a sympathetically mediated peripheral pain condition but rather a disease of the central nervous system as well. Herein, we present a case of a patient who presented with complaints of severe pain following a traumatic event, severing his extensor tendon of his right fifth finger.  Cureus 2019-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6783201/ /pubmed/31608198 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5363 Text en Copyright © 2019, Patel et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy of the Right Hand following an Acute Traumatic Injury
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6783201/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5363
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