整形外科的疾患に対する発汗検査法の応用

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The authors have made the perspirationsexamination of the skin inflicted upon heat stimuli in several orthopedic diseases, following by the Wada-Takagaki's and the Minor's method, and have measured the electric skin resistance.
In the paralysis of peripheral nerves, there is no perspiration of the skin in the area disturbed sensibility. It was found that the changes of perspiration of the skin corresponded to the area of the injuried sympathetic segment in the patients with radicular sciatica, and so it seems to be able to determine the injuried nerves in radicular sciatica.
In Volkmann's contracture perspiration decreased in the peripheral.
In case of fractures, perspiration decreased in the early time, but it became normal in 3 months.
If bones were atrophied, suppression of the sweating was continued later, and drops of sweat were irregular in size.