Skin wrinkling on immersion of hands: a test of sympathetic function.
Skin wrinkling of the fingers following immersion in warm water depends on intact sympathetic innervation. It is abolished by lesions affecting both central and peripheral sympathetic pathways. It affords a simple and reliable clinical test of sympathetic function.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001339:Autonomic Fibers, Preganglionic / Q000503:physiopathology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005725:Ganglia, Autonomic / Q000503:physiopathology; D006225:Hand / Q000294:innervation; D006732:Horner Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006945:Hyperhidrosis / Q000601:surgery; D007101:Immersion / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation*; D012869:Skin Absorption; D013562:Sympathectomy; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology*