Children and Adolescents with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: More Psychologically Distressed than Other Children in Pain?

Deirdre E Logan; Sara E Williams; Veronica P Carullo; Robyn Lewis Claar; Stephen Bruehl; Charles B Berde

doi:10.1155/2013/964352

Pain Research and Management (Jan 2013)

Children and Adolescents with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: More Psychologically Distressed than Other Children in Pain?

Deirdre E Logan,
Sara E Williams,
Veronica P Carullo,
Robyn Lewis Claar,
Stephen Bruehl,
Charles B Berde

Affiliations

Deirdre E Logan: Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
Sara E Williams: Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
Veronica P Carullo: Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
Robyn Lewis Claar: Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
Stephen Bruehl: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Charles B Berde: Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/964352
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 18, no. 2
pp. 87 – 93

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Historically, in both adult and pediatric populations, a lack of knowledge regarding complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and absence of clear diagnostic criteria have contributed to the view that this is a primarily psychiatric condition.

Published in Pain Research and Management

ISSN: 1203-6765 (Print); 1918-1523 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7040

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