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Abstract
Although neurologic pathology is a well-documented sequela of major electric burns,
there are few reports of complications arising from less extensive electrically induced
trauma. Two cases of patients with significant disease subsequent to minor electric
burns are presented. In one patient with a 2% superficial partial-thickness burn of
the right forearm, nerve conduction studies, electromyography, and somatosensory evoked
potential studies were consistent with right median mononeuropathy at the wrist and
a distal slowing of the right ulnar nerve. The second patient presented with persistent
numbness, hyperpathia, and burning in his left hand after an electric shock in a telephone
booth. He had a creatine phosphokinase of 2000mμ/mL but no surface burn. A left stellate
ganglion block provided complete resolution of his symptoms and established a diagnosis
of minor reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
January 2,
1989
Received:
December 19,
1987
Footnotes
☆Presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
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© 1989 Published by Elsevier Inc.
