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Case Reports
A case of pain, motor impairment, and swelling of the arm after acute herpes zoster infection.
- Matti Förster, Astrid Umnus, Dieter Siebrecht, Ralf Baron, and Gunnar Wasner.
- Klinik für Neurologie, Sektion für Neurologische Schmerzforschung und -therapie, Universitätsklinik Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany. m.foerster@neurologie.uni-kiel.de
- Pain. 2012 Dec 1;153(12):2478-81.
AbstractComplex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) represent neuropathic pain syndromes that may appear with similar clinical signs and symptoms. Medical history and clinical distribution of symptoms and signs (PHN typically at the thorax; CRPS typically at the limbs) is obvious in most cases, helping to discriminate between both disorders. Here, we present a patient suffering from CRPS II following PHN of one upper extremity. This case demonstrates that both etiology and part of the body affected by a neuropathy influence the pain phenotype.Copyright © 2012 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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