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Book review
Pain in peripheral nerve diseases
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Edited by C Sommer (Pp 202, US$170.50). Published by Karger, Basel, 2001. ISBN 3-8055-7268-9
Despite having a subspeciality interest in peripheral nerve disease, often I am perplexed by patients with neuropathic pain. Yet pain is a leading symptom of neuropathy, and the ability to manage it is essential to the compleat neurologist. So I was delighted to have the opportunity to improve my own understanding of neuropathic pain from this volume edited by Claudia Sommer. Her experience in linking clinical and experimental aspects of pain is a welcome thread running throughout this volume.
We are reminded that so much …