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Aetiology

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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Neuropathic pain is caused by:

  • metabolic causes:
    • diabetes mellitus
    • Fabry's disease

  • infective:
    • postherpetic neuralgia

  • inflammatory:
    • Rheumatoid neuropathy

  • neoplastic:
    • tumour invasion of nerve
    • radiotherapy and chemotherapy

  • trauma and phantom limbs

  • toxic:
    • alcoholic neuropathy

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