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NEUROLOGY 2005;65:748-750
© 2005 American Academy of Neurology
Brief Communications

Mirror-like spread of chronic pain

Nina Forss, MD, PhD, Erika Kirveskari, MD, PhD and Maarit Gockel, MD, PhD

From the Brain Research Unit (Drs. Forss and Kirveskari), Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Dr. Forss) and Division of Clinical Neurophysiology (Dr. Kirveskari), Helsinki University Central Hospital; Orthopaedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Unit of the Invalid Foundation (Dr. Gockel), Helsinki, Finland.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Nina Forss, PO Box 2200, FIN-02015 HUT, Espoo, Finland; e-mail: nina{at}neuro.hut.fi

The spread of chronic pain from its initial site of presentation is common, but the mechanisms of the spread are unknown. Here the authors present neurophysiologic evidence of altered interhemispheric conduction in a patient with a mirror-like spread of complex regional pain syndrome symptoms.

Editorial, see page 666

See also pages 751 and 773

This article was previously published in electronic format as an Expedited E-Pub on May 4, 2005, at www.neurology.org.

Received October 13, 2004. Accepted in final form March 31, 2005.




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