title: [So-called post-herpetic neuralgia and phantom limb pain: therapeutic concepts needing review].
abstract: After a brief review of the most recent findings on peripheral nerve nociception and deafferentation, the advisability of considering two so-called neuralgias - postherpetic neuralgia and phantom limb pain - in the more complex framework of deafferentation syndromes is examined together with the consequent need for a basic review of the therapeutic approaches pursued up to the present in the antalgic treatment of these two syndromes.
mesh_terms: D002818:Cordotomy; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009407:Nerve Block; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D010591:Phantom Limb / Q000628:therapy*; D011612:Psychosurgery; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: La cosidetta nevralgia posterpetica e l' arto fantasma doloroso: concetti terapeutici da rivedere.