paraesthesia

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abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage

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KEY WORDS: ss-thalassemia major; Hypocalcemia; Paresthesias; Hyperpigmentation; Myalgias; Carpopedal spasm.
Cristo, the advantage of high-frequency energy is that it eliminates the risk of paresthesias.
The patients reported that symptoms began approximately 3 hours after the meal, and, in addition to the gastrointestinal symptoms reported in the hospital emergency department, they experienced other symptoms compatible with CFP, including paradoxical temperature perception, paresthesias, numbness, arthralgia, and myalgia.
Its common complications are self limiting backache and paresthesias.
Conclusion: The use of nerve locator is more effective and successful in performing peripheral nerve blocks in comparison to paresthesia elicitation technique.
Paresthesias, neuropathic pain, arthralgias, and urinary dysfunction were common during and after meningitis.
"Trying to actually isolate the distribution of the paresthesia is important," he observed.
The forearm mass had appeared within the past 3 years and was associated with increasing numbness and paresthesias in the thumb and middle finger.
An 18-year-old man with a history of stage IVB T-cell lymphoma presented with fight ear pain and facial paresthesia. His initial cancer diagnosis had included pericardial and bone marrow involvement.
Tepper said, adding that patients offered topiramate should be warned about the risk of paresthesias and of reversible angle-closure glaucoma.
Peripheral neuropathy symptoms of paresthesias can also be presenting symptoms.
In a survey of 790 women participating in the Comparative Obstetric Mobile Epidural Trial (COMET), respondents reported a similar incidence of persistent backaches, neck aches, or paresthesias within 3 months of giving birth whether they had received combined spinal-epidural (CSE) or low-dose infusion--both mobile epidural regimens--or traditional epidural anesthesia.
To help differentiate AFP from GBS, the authors point out that GBS usually exhibits symmetrical weakness, sensory changes or paresthesias, and elevation of CSF protein in the absence o f pleocytosis.
These are sensations of numbness and tingling called paresthesias, most often felt in the legs and feet, and distorted or disagreeable sensations, called dysesthesias, which sometimes accompany paresthesias.