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| | Chronic Pains Associated with Positive and Negative Sensory, Motor, and Vasomotor Manifestations: CPSMV (RSD;CRPS?). ... |
 | | The somatosensory, somatomotor, and vasomotor clinical manifestations usually associated with chronic pain in CPSMV patients are, by nature, neurologic, and therefore call for specialized history and physical evaluation of the nervous system. |
 | | Vasomotor signs-e.g., hypothermia of the symptomatic parts with a glove or stocking distribution-are due to vasoconstriction not caused by sympathetic-denervation supersensitivity, but rather by increased neural sympathetic tone, as revealed by regional vasodilatation and warming after sympathetic block, sympathectomy, or block of somatic nerves. |
 | | Vasomotor signs may be present in the symptomatic parts of the body; however, these signs might be unrelated to the sympathetic system, the consequence of sympathetic ablation, or a genuine reflection of increased sympathetic activity not necessarily related to pain (Ochoa, 1991b, 1992a, 1992b, 1993; Ochoa and Verdugo, 1992; Rosenbaum and Ochoa, 1993). |
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