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Can children get complex regional pain syndrome?

Complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS, is a syndrome that usually affects adults, but children as young as three years old have been diagnosed with it.

Reference: 

William E. Ackerman, III, MD and Mahmood Ahmad, MD. Recurrent Postoperative CRPS I in Patients With Abnormal Preoperative Sympathetic Function. In American Journal of Hand Surgery. Feb. 2008. Vol. 33A, Pp. 217-221.

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