NERVOUS DISCHARGE FROM SMALL PAINLESS LESIONS IN SKIN AND MUSCLE
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- 1 August 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 16 (3) , 144-151
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.16.3.144
Abstract
Small painless somatic lesions can be made painful by causing ischemia in a short length of the nerve to the lesion, or by alkalemia induced by overbreathing. The pain is due to (a) subthreshold (for pain) nerve impulses arising in the peripheral ulcer and (b) hypersensitivity of the ischemic section of the nerve. These combine to produce pain.Keywords
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