THE REFERENCE OF CARDIAC PAIN TO A PHANTOM LEFT ARM
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- 1 January 1943
- Vol. 5 (1) , 67-71
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.5.1.67
Abstract
As a contribution to the mechanism of referred pain, the authors record 2 cases in which anginal pain was referred in part to a "phantom" left arm. In both, the left arm had been amputated more than 25 yrs. before the onset of cardiac pain; in both there was clinical and electro-cardiographic evidence of myocardial damage. Furthermore, the phantom component of the pain was abolished by anesthetizing the left brachial plexus.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: