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ArticleBMC neurology2020

An unusual presentation of neuropathic pain following cervical spinal cord injury: a case report.

Min Cheol Chang, Mathieu Boudier-Revéret, Yoo Jin Choo, Ming-Yen Hsiao

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Article in BMC neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Min Cheol ChangDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Namku, Taegu, Republic of Korea.
Mathieu Boudier-RevéretDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, 3840, Saint-Urbain St., Montreal, QC, H2W 1T8, Canada. mathieu.boudier-reveret@umontreal.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0259-8520
Yoo Jin ChooDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Namku, Taegu, Republic of Korea.
Ming-Yen HsiaoDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yeungnam University · KRCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal · CANational Taiwan University Hospital · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe report a patient with unusual occipital neuropathic pain (at-level neuropathic pain) due to a small central cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-year-old man presented with severe bilateral occipital pain after falling from a height of 2 m, 2 weeks ago. The degree of pain was evaluated to be 9 out of 10 using the numeric rating scale (NRS). The nature of the pain was tingling, burning, and piercing, and hyperalgesia was present over the bilateral posterior head regions. Greater occipital nerve block with bupivacaine and dexamethasone was not effective. On axial T2-cervical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a focal high signal change was observed in the central portion of the spinal cord at the C2 level. We deliberated that the patient's pain was due to the SCI observed on MRI, and after administration of oral medications, the NRS pain score reduced from 9 to 2.

conclusionsNeuropathic pain caused by SCI varies according to the location and degree of injury of the pain-related neural tracts; therefore, clinicians should closely observe the pain patterns and findings on imaging in patients with SCI to determine the cause of pain accurately.

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Cervical CordHumansHyperalgesiaMaleMiddle AgedNeuralgiaSpinal Cord InjuriesCentral cord syndromeNeuropathic painOccipital headacheSpinal cord injury

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