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Background It is a guiding adage in pediatrics that "Children are not small adults." This is also true in cases of pediatric complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). This chapter highlights where pediatric CRPS differs from adult CRPS, based on the growing body of pediatric CRPS research. Epidemiology CRPS was previously thought to be extremely rare in children . Case reports in the 1970s and 1980s brought greater awareness of pediatric CRPS to the medical community . CRPS is more likely to affect adolescent females, with the average age range being 12-13 [10-12]. There is also a female predominance in adult CRPS patients; however, the female predominance in pediatric CRPS appears to be higher . Incidence data on CRPS are limited in adults, and even more scarce in kids.The incidence of CRPS in adults was found to be 5.5 per 100,000 in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and 26.2 per 100,000 in the Netherlands . Using subset analysis on this data, the incidence of CRPS in pediatric patients was estimated to be 1.58 per 100,000 in Minnesota and 5.2 per 100,000 in the Netherlands . Abu-Arafeh and Abu-Arafeh studied the incidence of CRPS in children in Scotland based on the voluntary reporting of

Author

Joshua Lee; Shalini Shah

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030753726

Subjects

Medical, Management, Medicine