Motor nerve conduction study in Raynaud's phenomenon.
The term Raynaud's phenomenon is the eponym of a clinical picture culminating into and dominated by accessorial vasomotor crysis which are triggered by different stimuli (cold, cigarette smoking, emotional stress); cold sensitivity however, is a rather constant feature. Little is known about peripheral nerve involvement in Raynaud's phenomenon but for cases secondary to thoracic outlet syndrome or to primary neurologic diseases, systemic or not. The aim of the present work was to evaluate non-invasively the involvement of arterial flow as well as of nerve function in subjects complaining of Raynaud's phenomenon.
D000328:Adult; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009431:Neural Conduction; D011928:Raynaud Disease / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology*