Evaluation of CRPS and Assessment of Results of SCS by Autonomic Function Testing
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Departments of Neurological Surgery and Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and VA HealthCare System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Upper extremities were affected in 60% of the subject popuation, and lower extremities in 40%. Of the 24 subjects whose upper extremities were affected, 19 had CRPS in a single extremity, 3 bilaterally, and 2 were migratory (right to left upper extremity, left upper to bilateral lower extremities). Sixteen patients reported the origin of CRPS symptoms in the lower extremities of which 12 had a single extremity affected, 1 was affected bilaterally, and three reported migration from the lower to upper extremities, although only subjective symptoms were recorded in one.
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