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Complex regional pain syndrome after hepatitis B vaccine
Wasil A Jastaniah1, Simon Dobson, James G Lugsdin
1Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia and British Columbia's Children's Hospital, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. wjastan@cw.bc.ca
The Journal of Pediatrics
|December 6, 2003
Abstract:
Complex regional pain syndrome, characterized by pain, autonomic dysfunction, and decreased range of motion, developed after hepatitis B vaccination in four grade-6 children since the introduction of the vaccination program in British Columbia in 1992. The reaction may result from injection trauma or may be secondary to a vaccine constituent.