REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY SYNDROME - E TIOLOGY, CLINICAL-FEATURES,AND OUTCOME ACCORDING TO ETIOLOGY

Authors
Citation
P. Doury, REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY SYNDROME - E TIOLOGY, CLINICAL-FEATURES,AND OUTCOME ACCORDING TO ETIOLOGY, La Semaine des hopitaux de Paris, 70(33-34), 1994, pp. 996-1004
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
ISSN journal
00371777
Volume
70
Issue
33-34
Year of publication
1994
Pages
996 - 1004
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-1777(1994)70:33-34<996:RSDS-E>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, which presents a very wide spec trum of clinical patterns, is secondary to another condition in approx imately one of every two cases. Although injury is the most common cau se, many other events can precipitate or trigger the disease, includin g inflammatory, infectious, metabolic, dystrophic, degenerative, and t umorous disorders of the musculoskeletal system; cardiovascular and pl europulmonary disease; and diseases of the central or peripheral nervo us system. These events often occur in combination. In some instances, however, one etiologic factor plays a dominant role (e.g., childhood forms, treatment-induced forms, and forms associated with pregnancy or malignancies).