aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
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