title: [Quantitative determination of skin sensitivity. Method and clinical application].
abstract: The usual assessment of sensitivity by hand is biased by many subjective criteria both from the investigator and the investigated. They can be largely excluded with a rapid and simple method by estimation of the lowest threshold of irritability and pain using electric high-frequency current. The extent of the deranged sensitivity can be expressed numerically in any skin area. As a result of the reproducibility such an assessment of sensibility is useful for clinical and diagnostic purposes.
mesh_terms: D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000175:diagnosis; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000502:physiology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena
vernacular_title: Quantitative Bestimmung der Hautsensibilität. Methodik und klinische Anwendung.