title: [Two cases of chronic pain after regional anaesthesia].
abstract: We are reporting two cases of chronic neuropathic pain after traumatism during regional anaesthesia (RA). Nerve injury is a rare complication of RA and it is the neurogical deficit, which is the most often quoted in medical literature. However, in both cases the neuropathic pain was the single departure point. The reunion of the clinical element, which incorporates possible traumatism during regional anaesthesia, characteristics of pain and unusual painful localization of surgery, should have allowed a more early diagnostic and treatment. In both cases, persistent neuropathic pain incapacitates the patient several years after the traumatism.
authors.affiliation: Service D'anesthésie Réanimation Chirurgicale, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 104, boulevard Raymond-Poincaré, 92380 Garches, France. valeria.martinez@rpc.aphp.fr
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pares
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fletcher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002585:Cesarean Section; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000150:complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D016138:Walking