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PAIN
Volume 131, Issue 1-2, Pages 153-161Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.12.028
Keywords
children; adolescents; complex regional pain syndrome; quantitative sensory testing
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD35737] Funding Source: Medline
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Complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS) have been recognized with increasing frequency in children. These disorders appear to differ markedly from those observed in adults. The International Association for the Study of Pain diagnostic criteria for CRPS were developed based on adult studies; these criteria have not been validated for children. We performed standardized neurological examination and quantitative sensory testing (QST) in a group of pediatric patients to characterize features of sensory dysfunction. Forty-two patients. with unilateral lower extremity CRPS of a mean duration of the pain and symptoms of 12.6 months, who met IASP adult-based criteria for CRPS underwent standardized neurological examination and QST. QST parameters were compared to values previously derived from age- and sex-matched pediatric healthy controls. In most respects, QST parameters did not differ significantly between patients and the normal reference values except for cold and heat pain detection thresholds. Allodynia to cold and/or heat (P < 0.001) occurred in 21 patients. Cold allodynia was the most common QST abnormality in our patients. Twenty-six patients showed a combination of mechanical dynamic and static allodynia and allodynia to punctate temporal summation. There was a sianificant correlation between mechanical dynamic allodynia and allodynia to punctate temporal summation (P < 0.001). As with adult CRPS, the thermal and mechanical sensory abnormalities appear in different combinations in different patients with similar clinical presentations. In a majority of patients, the pathogenesis of pain is seemingly of central origin. (C) 2007 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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