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Lancinating pain in post-laminectomy chronic sciatica

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Lancinating pain, as described in tabes dorsalis, was noted in four patients with chronic sciatica after several months of laminectomy. The pain responded well to carbamezapine therapy. Abnormal or ephaptic neural transmission of impulses in the roots was considered to be the cause of such pain.

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  1. J. K. Baruah

    Present address: Department of Neurology, The Medial College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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    Baruah, J.K. Lancinating pain in post-laminectomy chronic sciatica. Acta neurochir 76, 129–130 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01418474

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