Central Causes of Neuropathic Pain Peripheral Causes of Neuropathic pain
•Compression myelopathy due to spinal stenosis •HIV myelopathy
•Multiple sclerosis pain
•Pain of Parkinson disease
•Myelopathy after ischemia or radiation
•Pain after stroke
•Pain due to posttraumatic medulla spinalis injury •Syringomyelia
•Acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinizating polyradiculoneuropathy
•Alcohol induced polynerupathy
•Chemoteraphy induced polyneuropathy •Complex regional pain syndrome
•Entrapment neuropathies
•HIV sensory neuropathy
•Idiopathic sensorial neuropathy
•Tumour infiltration of nerves
•Neuropathy of nutrition deficiency
•Painful diabetic neuropathy
•Phantom pain of extremity
•Postherpetic neuralgia
•Plexopathy after radiation
•Radiculopathy (cervical, thoracal, lumbosacral)
•Neuropathy because of toxic exposure
•Trigeminal neuralgia
•Posttraumatic neuralgia
•Peripheral nerve injury
Table 1: Main causes of neuropathic pain.