Clinical course of pain in a patient with neuropathic pain induced by ligation of an intercostal nerve
Received 15 September 2007; received in revised form 6 January 2009; accepted 8 January 2009. published online 26 October 2009. Uncorrected Proof
Abstract
A patient with severe right chest pain and mechanical allodynia induced by ligation of an intercostal drainage tube to his chest skin is presented.
It was not relieved by treatment with diclofenac sodium and was worsened by movement and touch to the right chest wall. Mechanical allodynia was also present. The patient's wrenching pain disappeared immediately after stitch removal, but the dull pain and mechanical allodynia persisted, gradually decreasing to zero in 7 days.
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