Paradoxical clinical consequences of peripheral nerve injury: a review of anatomical, neurophysiological and psychological mechanisms.

doi:10.1016/s0007-1226(95)90107-8

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Paradoxical clinical consequences of peripheral nerve injury: a review of anatomical, neurophysiological and psychological mechanisms.

British journal of plastic surgery - 1 Sept 1995

McAllister R M, Calder J S

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This paper reviews some of the possible explanations and mechanisms that may be responsible for variation from expected clinical findings soon after nerve injury in certain patients, and for subjective sensations and objective sensibility which can appear to arise from within the autonomous zone...

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Animals
Genetic Variation
Humans
Muscles
Nerve Regeneration
Neurons, Afferent
Perception
Peripheral Nerve Injuries
Peripheral Nerves
Psychology
Sensation
Skin
Synaptic Transmission

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