Contralateral Sensory and Pain Perception Changes in Patients With Unilateral Neuropathy

Elena Enax-Krumova1, Nadine Attal2, Didier Bouhassira2

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (E.E.-K.), BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil GmbH, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; INSERM U-987 (N.A., D.B.), Centre D'Evaluation et de Traitement de La Douleur, CHU Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt; Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin (N.A., D.B.), Versailles, France; Department of Anaesthesiology (R.F.), Critical Care Medicine, Pain Therapy & Palliative Care, Pain Center Lake Starnberg, Benedictus Hospital Feldafing; Department of Anaesthesiology (R.F.), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich; Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy (J.G., J.S., R.B.), Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany; Department of Pain Management and Research (P.H.), Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Neuropathic Pain, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital, Norway; Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery (P.H.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Pain Medicine (B.K., J.V.), Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Pain Research (B.K.), Department Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Chelsea and Westminster Campus, London, UK; University Hospital of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (C.M.), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; MS Medical Consulting (M.S.); Karolinska Institute (M.S.), Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Neurology (T.T.), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich; Department of Neurophysiology (R.-D.T., J.V.), Mannheim Center for Translational Neuroscience MCTN, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany; Danish Pain Research Center (L.V.), Department of Clinical Medicine, and Department of Oncology (L.V.), Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Elena.Krumova@rub.de.

Neurology
|May 20, 2021
PubMed
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