title: Sudeck's atrophy: a review of the literature.
abstract: Sudeck's atrophy, initiated by local irritation, proceeds from a mild form of neurovascular and osseous changes to a stage of increasing or intractable pain and trophic changes. Differential diagnosis is important as a number of conditions may produce a similar clinical picture. At any stage, the disease may improve spontaneously or from therapy, or it may result in varying degrees of permanent disability.
mesh_terms: D001284:Atrophy; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology; D012019:Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology