title: A case of pain, motor impairment, and swelling of the arm after acute herpes zoster infection.
abstract: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) represent neuropathic pain syndromes that may appear with similar clinical signs and symptoms. Medical history and clinical distribution of symptoms and signs (PHN typically at the thorax; CRPS typically at the limbs) is obvious in most cases, helping to discriminate between both disorders. Here, we present a patient suffering from CRPS II following PHN of one upper extremity. This case demonstrates that both etiology and part of the body affected by a neuropathy influence the pain phenotype.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Neurologie, Sektion für Neurologische Schmerzforschung und -therapie, Universitätsklinik Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinik Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Förster
authors.forename: Astrid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Umnus
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Siebrecht
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: Gunnar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wasner
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D001132:Arm; D002422:Causalgia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004487:Edema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009069:Movement Disorders; D051474:Neuralgia, Postherpetic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*