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Is reflex sympathetic dystrophy a valid concept?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Mikael Elam
Mikael Elam
Affiliation:
Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Sahlgren University Hospital, S-413 45 Göteborg, [email protected]
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Abstract

Patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) affecting one limb show similar sympathetic traffic in nerves supplying the affected and unaffected limb, despite unilateral autonomic effector dysfunction. This argues against the notion that RSD is mediated by a reflex change in the pattern of sympathetic discharge and underlines the fact that autonomic effector disturbances give little information about underlying nerve traffic. [blumberg et al.]

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 447 - 448
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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