Plasticity of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) in Children
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Plasticity of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in children.
Complex regional pain syndrome I (CRPS I) is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) criteria to include pain that is disproportionate to the inciting event, sensory disturbances such as allodynia/ hyperalgesia, autonomic dysfunction, and motor dysfunction that usually occurs after trauma that is frequently trivial and generally expressed in an extremity. These sym...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pain Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1526-2375,1526-4637
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00910.x