Received 22 October 2004, revised 17 February 2005, accepted 23 February 2005
C. Grelik
"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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Abnormal pain following nerve sprouting
Collectively, our findings indicate that as a result of autonomic sprouting due to CCI of the MN, remaining intact nociceptive fibres may potentially develop sensitivity to sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation, which may have a role in the generation of abnormal pain following nerve injury.
1 , G. J. Bennett 3,4,5 and A. Ribeiro-da-Silva 1,2,5 1 Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, 3655 Prom. Sir-William-Osler, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y6
2 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
3 Department of Anesthesia,
4 Faculty of Dentistry, and
5 McGill Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada