title: [Leg pain in neurology].
abstract: A frequent presenting symptom encountered by both neurologists and phlebologists, pain in the lower limbs often results in clinical practice in the suggestion of a neurological disorder. Only pain relating to neurological conditions will be dealt with here. A review of the anatomical pathways of different types of sensation is followed by a semiological review of descriptions of pain and the underlying mechanisms. Mention is then made "from below upwards" of a number of common conditions in which pain is a frequent presenting symptom: firts peripheral: polyneuropathy (alcoholic and diabetic), polyradiculoneuropathy, mononeuropathy, root pain (sciatica, cruralgia), narrow lumbar canal; then central: spinal cord pain, thalamic pain, so-called projected encephalic pain. This merely provides a differential diagnostic approach in relation to phlebological pain of the lower limbs.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Neurologique, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schadeck-Guillemaud
mesh_terms: D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000294:innervation*; D010146:Pain; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012677:Sensation
vernacular_title: Douleurs des membres inférieurs en neurologie.