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Sympathectomy for Pain

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Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

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Several persistent pain syndromes are influenced by the sympathetic nervous system, including dysesthesias, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (complex regional pain syndrome II) induced by accidental or surgical trauma to nervous structures, postherpetic neuralgia, pain from the peripheral neuropathy of diabetes, and pain from the peripheral entrapment syndromes. These so-called sympathetically maintained pain syndromes have three common characteristics: (1) a history of noxious stimulation in the painful area; (2) a continuous burning pain with allodynia; and (3) relief by sympathetic blockade.

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  1. C. R. Telles-Ribeiro
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  2. L. F. de Oliveira
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  1. Canadian Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1), 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Andres M. Lozano (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery)

  2. Houston Stereotactic Concepts, Inc., 2260 West Holcombe Boulevard Suite 309, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    Philip L. Gildenberg

  3. University of Toronto, 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Ronald R. Tasker

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Telles-Ribeiro, C.R., de Oliveira, L.F. (2009). Sympathectomy for Pain. In: Lozano, A.M., Gildenberg, P.L., Tasker, R.R. (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_136

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