[Practice guidelines for neuropathic pain management].
Neuropathic pain (NP) is a heterogeneous entity with wide diversity of symptoms. Despite the controversies regarding its definition and classification, which difficult its epidemiology, it has been estimated that 4 million people, in USA develop NP.


OBJECTIVE
A task force was created to generate a series of recommendations which facilitate the decision making and therapeutic approach of this kind of pain.


METHODS
A search of medical literature was made in different electronic data bases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, COCHRANE); after this search we conducted three work-sessions and evaluated the evidence regarding the diagnosis and treatment of pain in painful diabetic poli-neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, and trigeminal neuralgia were evaluated.


RESULTS
We found 329 documents for further analysis, and with the aid of the literature results we generate this practice guidelines.
Guevara-López
Uriah
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Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, México, DF. uriahguevara@yahoo.com.mx
Covarrubias-Gómez
Alfredo
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García-Ramos
Guillermo
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Hernández-Jiménez
Sergio
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D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D051474:Neuralgia, Postherpetic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*