Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Keywords

reflex sympathetic dystrophy, RSD, algodystrophy, Sudeck atrophy, painful dysfunction syndrome, reflex neurovascular dystrophy, shoulder-hand syndrome, chronic regional pain syndrome, CRPS, causalgia, complex regional pain syndrome, sympathetically mediated pain syndrome, SMP, algodystrophy complex regional pain syndrome, chronic pain syndrome

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Satishchandra Kale, MD, FRCS(Edin), FRCS Ed(UK), Dip Sports Med, Honorary Assistant Professor of Trauma and Orthopedics, University of Bombay; Consultant, Department of Orthopedics, Dr R N Cooper Hospital, Brahmakumaris Global Hospital, India
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