CAUSALGIA AND THE VEGETATIVE ARC
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The term 'causalgia'.
AMONG the many centenaries which have been celebrated in connection with the American Civil War one which has been neglected is the first description of that remarkable and fascinating complication ofnerve wounds which we know as causalgia. There is no doubt that although some earlier writers notably Denmark (1819)1, Hamilton (1838),2 and Paget (1864)3 had described single patients who presente...
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We report 18 patients (16 women and two men) with causalgia and dystonia, triggered by peripheral injuries in 15 cases and occurring spontaneously in three. The injury was often trivial, and did not cause overt peripheral nerve lesions. The mean age at presentation was 28.5 years. None had a family history of dystonia. The leg was affected initially in 12 patients, the arm in the remaining six ...
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Control of expression of molecular receptors for chemical messengers and modulation of these receptors' activity are now established as ways to alter cellular reaction. This paper extends these mechanisms to the arena of pathological pain by presenting the hypothesis that increased expression of alpha-adrenergic receptors in primary afferent neurons is part of the etiology of pain in classical ...
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Sarah E., aged 30, was shot through the lower tlhird of the forearm by a sniper's bullet during the disturbances in Belfast in 1921. She was admitted to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital on the same (lay (July, 1921). The bullet had entered obliquely, grazed the median nlerve, fractured the radius, and come out on the dorsal surface of the forearm. The woutnd was excised, the fracture splinted, and...
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lieutenant-colonel, i.m.s. Since Mitchell et al. described causalgia in 1864, the opportunities to study this condition lr* detail have not been many. The following report is based on a series of 32 cases which came under my care during 1944 and early part of 1945 After March 1945 no cases were received up to the end of the year, a very Jmportant fact As I shall explain later this ?an be defini...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal OF Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1920
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-192001000-00008