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January 1, 1994Brain

Visceral afferents: their contribution to ‘sympathetic dependent’ pain

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Population

Patients with 'sympathetic dependent' pain (e.g., causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy)

Design

Review

Authors

GSG D SchottNational Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

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Implication

May warrant caution with sympathetic blocks for presumed sympathetically maintained pain; leaves open visceral afferent mechanisms for prospective study.

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Population
Patients with 'sympathetic dependent' pain (e.g., causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy)

This review proposes that visceral afferents, rather than the sympathetic nervous system, mediate pains traditionally considered 'sympathetic dependent'.

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G D Schott (1994) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71f15c5d37378ac1deeb74https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/117.2.397
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