title: Skin wrinkling on immersion of hands: a test of sympathetic function.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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*