Thermal Perception Threshold Testing for the Evaluation of Small Sensory Nerve Fiber Injury in Patients with Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome.
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- TOIBANA Norikuni
- Tokushima Kensei Hospital
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- SAKAKIBARA Hisataka
- Nagoya University School of Health Sciences
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- HIRATA Mamoru
- Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health
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- KONDO Takaaki
- Nagoya University School of Medicine
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- TOYOSHIMA Hideaki
- Nagoya University School of Medicine
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The aim of the present study was to investigate whether thermal perception threshold testing is a useful method that could replace pain threshold testing in the evaluation of small sensory nerve fiber injury in vibration-induced neuropathy. Vibration, pain, and thermal (warm and cold) perception thresholds were examined on both middle fingers of 50 patients with hand-arm vibration syndrome and 29 healthy controls of similar age. The patients were divided into three subgroups according to the Stockholm Workshop sensorineural scale. Thermal (warm and cold) thresholds as well as vibration and pain thresholds were significantly more deteriorated among the patients than in the controls. Among the patients, warm thresholds elevated and cold thresholds lowered according to the Stockholm Workshop scale. Thermal thresholds were significantly correlated with pain thresholds, and the sensitivity of the thermal threshold testing tended to be greater than that of the pain threshold testing. The present findings indicate that thermal threshold testing for warm and cold perception can be a useful substitute for pain threshold testing to examine small nerve fiber injury in vibration-induced neuropathy.
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- Industrial health
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Industrial health 38 (4), 366-371, 2000
独立行政法人 労働者健康安全機構 労働安全衛生総合研究所
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- CRID
- 1390282679255780608
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- NII論文ID
- 130003550963
- 30035022277
- 40005265698
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- NII書誌ID
- AA00672955
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- ISSN
- 18808026
- 00198366
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- NDL書誌ID
- 5560401
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- PubMed
- 11061479
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