Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a poorly understood pain disorder presenting with predominantly neuropathic features. It is often, though not always, associated with an injury to the central or peripheral nervous systems, and in such cases may aggravate the prevailing disability. We describ...

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Autores principales: Kong, Soo Ting, Yeo, Dexter, Neo, Edmund J, Chen, Dominic
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9338342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35915704
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26440
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description Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a poorly understood pain disorder presenting with predominantly neuropathic features. It is often, though not always, associated with an injury to the central or peripheral nervous systems, and in such cases may aggravate the prevailing disability. We describe a unique case of bilateral CRPS arising in a patient following traumatic spinal cord injury.
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spelling pubmed-93383422022-07-31 Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report Kong, Soo Ting Yeo, Dexter Neo, Edmund J Chen, Dominic Cureus Internal Medicine Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a poorly understood pain disorder presenting with predominantly neuropathic features. It is often, though not always, associated with an injury to the central or peripheral nervous systems, and in such cases may aggravate the prevailing disability. We describe a unique case of bilateral CRPS arising in a patient following traumatic spinal cord injury. Cureus 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9338342/ /pubmed/35915704 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26440 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kong et al. https://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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Kong, Soo Ting
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Chen, Dominic
Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
title Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
title_full Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
title_fullStr Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
title_short Bilateral Upper Limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Type 2) in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
title_sort bilateral upper limb complex regional pain syndrome (type 2) in cervical spinal cord injury: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9338342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35915704
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26440
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