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Table 1 Distribution of painful neuropathic disorders*

From: Clinical characteristics and patterns of healthcare utilization in patients with painful neuropathic disorders in UK general practice: a retrospective cohort study

Painful neuropathic disorder

Patients with painful neuropathies (N = 31,688)

Diabetic neuropathy

658 (2.1)

Diabetic neuropathy

812 (2.6)

Back pain with neuropathic involvement

14,689 (46.4)

Neck pain with neuropathic involvement

589 (1.9)

Cancer with neuropathic pain

0 (0.0)

Causalgia

73 (0.2)

Phantom limb pain

76 (0.2)

Trigeminal neuralgia

965 (3.0)

Atypical facial pain

702 (2.2)

Neuropathic pain, unspecified

 

   Neuralgia unspecified

1,737 (5.5)

   Neuralgia, neuritis and radiculitis unspecified

2 (0.0)

   Neuralgia, neuritis or radiculitis NOS

3 (0.0)

   Neuritis unspecified

70 (0.2)

   Neuropathic pain

698 (2.2)

   Peripheral neuropathy

573 (1.8)

   Polyneuropathy unspecified

2 (0.0)

   Any of above

3,085 (9.7)

Nerve impingement syndromes

 

   Carpal tunnel syndrome

548 (1.7)

   CTS-Carpal tunnel syndrome

3,379 (10.7)

   Cubital tunnel syndrome

20 (0.1)

   Median nerve compression in forearm

1 (0.0)

   Meralgia paraesthetica

302 (1.0)

   Morton's metatarsalgia

98 (0.3)

   Morton's neuralgia

74 (0.2)

   Nerve root and plexus compressions in

22 (0.1)

   diseases EC

 

   Tarsal tunnel syndrome

9 (0.0)

   Any of above

4,453 (14.1)

Other

 

   Acute infective polyneuritis

0 (0.0)

   Acroparaesthesia-Schultze's type

0 (0.0)

   Acroparaesthesia - unspecified

0 (0.0)

   Alcoholic polyneuropathy

4 (0.0)

   Burning feet syndrome

31 (0.1)

   C/O paraesthesia

1,999 (6.3)

   Hereditary and idiopathic peripheral neuropathy

2 (0.0)

   Hereditary or idiopathic peripheral neuropathy NOS

11 (0.0)

   Hereditary peripheral neuropathy

2 (0.0)

   Hereditary sensory neuropathy

2 (0.0)

   Inflammatory and toxic neuropathy

6 (0.0)

   Korsakov's alcoholic psychosis with peripheral neuritis

0 (0.0)

   Median nerve neuritis

2 (0.0)

   Mononeuritis lower limb

7 (0.0)

   Mononeuritis multiplex

3 (0.0)

   Mononeuritis of unspecified site NOS

1 (0.0)

   Mononeuritis of upper limb and mononeuritis multiplex

1 (0.0)

   Mononeuritis upper limb NOS

2 (0.0)

   Nerve root and plexus disorders

41 (0.1)

   Nerve root or plexus disorder NOS

8 (0.0)

   Neuralgic amyotrophy

6 (0.0)

   Neuritis ulnar nerve

9 (0.0)

   Neuropathy in association with hereditary ataxia

0 (0.0)

   O/E-hyperaesthesia present

20 (0.1)

   O/E-paraesthesia in hands

25 (0.1)

   O/E-paraesthesia present

2 (0.0)

   Other idiopathic peripheral neuropathy

2 (0.0)

   Other idiopathic peripheral neuropathy NOS

0 (0.0)

   Other mononeuritis lower limb

0 (0.0)

   Other nerve root or plexus disorder

2 (0.0)

   Other toxic agent polyneuropathy

0 (0.0)

   Other toxic or inflammatory neuropathy

0 (0.0)

   Other upper limb mononeuritis

1 (0.0)

   Paraesthesia

0 (0.0)

   Parsonage-Aldren-Turner syndrome

0 (0.0)

   Peripheral neuritis in pregnancy

0 (0.0)

   Peripheral neuropathy-hereditary or idiopathic

145 (0.5)

   Policeman's disease

2 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy

23 (0.1)

   Polyneuropathy due to drugs

0 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy in disease NOS

1 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy in disseminated lupus erythematosus

0 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy in porphyria

0 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy in rheumatoid arthritis

0 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy in sarcoidosis

0 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy in uraemia

0 (0.0)

   Polyneuropathy in vitamin B deficiency

0 (0.0)

   Radiculitis unspecified

7 (0.0)

   Ramsey-Hunt syndrome

18 (0.1)

   Toxic or inflammatory neuropathy NOS

0 (0.0)

   Ulnar neuritis

139 (0.4)

   Unspecified mononeuritis lower limb

0 (0.0)

   D paraesthesia

1,756 (5.5)

   X Polyneuropathy, unspecified

1 (0.0)

   X Inflammatory polyneuropathy, unspecified

0 (0.0)

   Any of above

4,281 (13.5)

Any of above

31,688 (100.0)

  1. *All values are number of patients (%).