Luciana Mendonça Barbosa, Valquíria Aparecida da Silva, Antônia Lilian de Lima Rodrigues, Diego Toledo Reis Mendes Fernandes, Rogério Adas Ayres de Oliveira, Ricardo Galhardoni, Lin Tchia Yeng, Jefferson Rosi Junior, Adriana Bastos Conforto, Leandro Tavares Lucato, Marcelo Delboni Lemos, Roland Peyron, Luis Garcia-Larrea, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade
Central post-stroke pain affects up to 12% of stroke survivors and is notoriously refractory to treatment. However, stroke patients often suffer from other types of pain of non-neuropathic nature (musculoskeletal, inflammatory, complex regional) and no head-to-head comparison of their respective clinical and somatosensory profiles has been performed so far. We compared 39 patients with definite central neuropathic post-stroke pain with two matched control groups: 32 patients with exclusively non-neuropathic pain developed after stroke and 31 stroke patients not complaining of pain...
2022: Brain communications