Yuh WT, Fisher DJ, Shields RK, Ehrhardt JC, Shellock FG.
J Magn Reson Imaging. 1992 Mar-Apr;2(2):221-3.
PMID: 1562774 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.
An amputee (traumatic) experienced increased phantom limb pain when exposed to the magnetic fields of two magnetic resonance imagers. With a visual analog scale used to measure pain, electric stimulation studies demonstrated that the residual limb was unusually sensitive to subthreshold (for muscle twitch) levels of current. The painful symptoms produced mimicked those experienced in the presence of the imagers.
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PMID: 1562774 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
