Recurrent Post-Infarctional Shoulder-Hand Syndrome

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Abstract
THE shoulder-hand syndrome may be defined as a combination of painful shoulder disability with homolateral pain and swelling of the hand. This entity has recently been described in detail by Steinbrocker and his associates1 in an extensive report and review of the literature. The causes include: peripheral lesions such as trauma and suppuration of the extremity (Sudeck's atrophy, causalgia and so forth), vascular disease (thrombophlebitis, periarteritis nodosa), cervical osteoarthritis and post-infarctional heart disease; lesions of the spinal cord and ganglions such as herpes zoster; cerebral lesions (hemorrhage, thrombosis) and a large number classified as idiopathic.The syndrome has been divided . . .