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Neuropathic Pain

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“Pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system” is a definition for neuropathic pain according to the International Association for the Study of Pain. “Lesion” refers to an abnormality found on a diagnostic test (e.g., evidence of demyelination); “disease” refers to a known process causing a lesion (e.g., Guillain-Barre Syndrome). This lesion or disease-causing neuropathic pain may be in either the central or peripheral nervous system.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Christopher R. Abrecht MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Pain Management Center, 850 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA

    Srdjan S. Nedeljkovic MD

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Correspondence to Christopher R. Abrecht MD .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Abrecht, C.R., Nedeljkovic, S.S. (2017). Neuropathic Pain. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_145

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