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A case of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (complex regional pain syndrome, type I) resolved by cerebral contusion
M Shibata1, K Nakao, B S Galer
1Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan. mshibata@anes.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
Pain
|March 6, 1999
Abstract:
We present a case of refractory reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) (complex regional pain syndrome, type I) whose symptoms (ongoing pain, allodynia, hyperhydrosis and temperature abnormalities) were resolved after the patient suffered a traumatic cerebral contusion in the left temporal lobe, which caused no neurological deficit. This case suggests that symptoms of some RSD patients may largely sustained by a complex network involving the brain.