Hooshang Hooshmand, Masood Hashmi, Eric M. Phillips
Neurological Associates Pain Management Center, Vero Beach, Florida, USA http://www.rsdinfo.com/thermography_part-_ii.htm
"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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sympathectomy results in partial hyperthermia, with compensatory contralateral extremity hypothermia
sympathectomy results in partial hyperthermia, with compensatory contralateral extremity hypothermia, this result in the spread of pain in the contralateral extremity. Out of desperation, sympathectomy has been applied for treatment of causalgia since 1916 (7). The literature review of sympathectomy literature for treatment of CRPS shows high rates of failure. Welch et al (8) showed 13% successful results of sympathectomy in 8.4 years of long term follow-up.