RSD/CRPS After Median Artery And Nerve Laceration

Dr. Robert Schwartz

Posted on January 30, 2018, updated on September 30, 2019

22 yo male with a chief complaint of LUE pain after a laceration injury with a machete that originally began in the mid to distal forearm and then started to radiate both proximally and distally.  He underwent flexor tendon, median artery, and median nerve repair.  Cold stress sympathetic skin response thermology showed an asymmetry pattern of each upper extremity in all views with more intense findings over the dorsal aspect of the second and third fingers. Thermographic impression included LUE RSD/CRPS; a second isolated pathology impacting the second and third fingers of the left hand should be considered.