Silas Weir Mitchell discovered and treated causalgia ( today known as CRPS / RSD ), a condition most often encountered by hand surgeons.
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Mayfield wrote numerous papers and a book about the treatment of causalgia ( intense pain resulting from wounds to peripheral nerves ) with surgical sympathectomy.
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A graduate of Moscow State University ( 1919 ), in 1936 he wrote a thesis on Causalgia treatment and in 1947 his thesis was on Intracranial pressure.
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"' Silas Weir Mitchell "'( February 15, 1829 January 4, 1914 ) was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia ( complex regional pain syndrome ) and erythromelalgia.
परिभाषा
a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes