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Chronic central neuropathic pain associated with spinal cord injury

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Link to WHO Definition

Chronic central neuropathic pain associated with spinal cord injury – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/869493945

Chronic central neuropathic pain associated with spinal cord injury is caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory pathways in the spinal cord. The definition of spinal cord injury comprises impairments of spinal cord or cauda equina function resulting from external force or a disease process. The pain may be spontaneous or evoked, as an increased response to a painful stimulus (hyperalgesia) or a painful response to a normally nonpainful stimulus (allodynia). The diagnosis requires a history of spinal cord lesion or disease and a neuroanatomically plausible distribution of the pain, i.e. pain felt in dermatomes at or below the level of injury in areas with sensory disturbance.